Appeal No. 2002-1574 Page 7
Application No. 09/280,921
(Brief, page 6; Reply Brief, pages 2 and 3). Again, we agree with the Examiner that this
language recited in claim 1 reads on Jonner, inasmuch as Jonner discloses inlet and
outlet valves 124 and 132 in a “first valve arrangement” to adjust the lower pressures of
the remaining cylinder(s) (Answer, page 6; see Jonner Figure 1 and column 6, lines 5-
6). Specifically, the inlet and outlet valves of the first valve arrangement of Jonner
serve to modulate the pressure in the wheel with the lower pressure level (or in the
words of the claim, “a further brake pressure”).
It therefore is our opinion that all of the subject matter recited in claim 1 “reads
on” the system disclosed by Jonner, and thus the reference anticipates the claim. This
being the case, we will sustain the rejection of claim 1, as well as the like rejection of
dependent claims 2 and 17-19, which the appellant has chosen to group with claim 1
(Brief, page 4).
Claim 20 recites the invention in three method steps which track the invention as
presented in apparatus claim 1. On the basis of the same reasoning set forth above
with regard to claim 1, we also will sustain the Section 102 rejection of claims 20, 21
and 23-25. The appellants’ arguments regarding claim 20 (Brief, pages 6-7) are the
same as those directed to claim 1, and we find them not to be persuasive for the
reasons set forth above.
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