Appeal No. 2002-1470 Page 4
Application No. 09/490,192
statement, appellant arguments are generic to each of the
independent claims. Accordingly, we select claim 1 as
representative of the group.
To anticipate a claim, a prior art reference must disclose
every limitation of the claimed invention, either explicitly or
inherently. In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d
1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997).
From our review of the record, we find that the issue before
us is whether Grossheim discloses a data communications bus as
set forth in appellant's claims.
The examiner's position (final rejection, page 2) is that
Grossheim discloses a vehicle alerting system comprising a data
communications bus 64 extending within the vehicle, and points to
col. 10, lines 17-25, col. 11, lines 33-35 and figure 2 of
Grossheim.
Appellant asserts (brief, page 6) that the only data bus
described in Grossheim is internal data bus 64 of control unit
34. Appellant argues (brief, page 7) that the internal control
unit data bus is not by itself, or in combination with the
vehicle wiring harness 30, a data communications bus as disclosed
and claimed in the present invention.
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