Appeal No. 2002-1620 Page 4
Application No. 09/504,416
v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert.
denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984), it is only necessary for the claims to "'read on' something
disclosed in the reference, i.e., all limitations of the claim are found in the reference, or
'fully met' by it."
In accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we have selected claim 1 as the
representative claim from the appellants' grouping of claims 1 to 5, 8 to 13 and 16 to 19
to decide the appeal on this rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). See page 3 of the
appellants' brief.
Claim 1 reads as follows:
A releasable pedal system for an automotive vehicle, said system
comprising:
a pedal assembly including a pedal pad operatively engageable by a
vehicle operator;
an actuator assembly for generating an amount of pressurized fluid
responsive to the pedal assembly; and
a pressure release valve coupled in fluid communication with the
pressurized fluid and operable to release pressurized fluid to a fluid supply
reservoir so as to reduce the amount of pressurized fluid in response to detecting
a vehicle collision.
Bauer's invention relates to a hydraulic automotive vehicle brake system with an
actuating assembly that is attached to the splashboard of the automotive vehicle and is
operable by the vehicle brake pedal. In order to reduce the possibility of risk to the
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