Appeal No. 2002-1266 Page 2
Application No. 09/757,603
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a lawn mower. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from exemplary claim 20, which reads as follows:
A lawn mower comprising:
an engine;
first and second drive wheels;
a foot platform, wherein at least a portion of the foot platform is
located between the first and second drive wheels;
a seat for supporting a sitting operator;
wherein said seat is selectively deployable from a stowed position
to a deployed position so that a position of said platform does not change
when said seat is moved from the stowed position to the deployed
position, and wherein said seat may be selectively folded from the
deployed position to the stowed position.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Boice 4,663,923 May 12, 1987
Berrios 5,653,466 Aug. 5, 1997
Munnoch et al. (Munnoch) 6,059,309 May 9, 2000
Claims 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Boice in view of Munnoch.
Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Boice in view of Munnoch and Berrios.
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