Appeal No. 2002-1470 Page 2
Application No. 09/490,192
BACKGROUND
Appellant's invention relates to a vehicle alert system for
a vehicle having a data bus. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is
reproduced as follows:
1. A vehicle alerting system comprising:
a data communications bus extending within the vehicle;
at least one security device at the vehicle for generating
security signals on said data communications bus;
a remote receiver to be carried by a user
a local transmitter at the vehicle; and
a paging controller at the vehicle for causing said local
transmitter to transmit to said remote receiver based upon
security signals on said data communications bus to thereby alert
the user when away from the vehicle.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Grossheim et al. 4,794,368 Dec. 27, 1988
(Grossheim)
Claims 1-9, 15-19, 21-25, 27-32, and 24-39 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Grossheim.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellant regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 10, mailed
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