Appeal No. 2002-1717 Page 8
Application No. 09/089,153
from the front near the bottom of the driver's side." In
Gauthier, figure 2 discloses transceivers 60 mounted on the side
of the trailer of the tractor-trailer. The left-most transceiver
60 is located approximately one-third of the way back from the
front of the tractor-trailer. We note that claim 1, as broadly
drafted, does not require the detector be approximately one-third
of the way back from the front of the trailer, but reads on the
detector being approximately one-third of the way back from the
front of the tractor trailer. From the dioslosure of Gauthier,
we find that an artisan would have been motivated to locate the
detectors of Schofield in the location disclosed by Gauthier, in
view of Gauthier's disclosed placement on a tractor-trailer. In
addition, we note that Schofield does not seem to disclose that
the rear detection module includes a laser-based distance
detection system. Neither does Gauthier. However, the appellant
does not argue this as a difference and thus it will be assumed
that limitation is met or made obvious to one skilled in the art
by Schofield and Gauthier. Cf. In re Baxter Travenol Labs, 952
F.2d 388, 391, 21 USPQ2d 1281, 1285 (Fed. Cir. 1991) ("It is not
the function of this court to examine the claims in greater
detail than argued by an appellant, looking for nonobvious
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