Appeal No. 2002-1784
Application No. 09/583,333 Page 6
their broadest reasonable interpretation consistent with the
specification, and limitations appearing in the specification are
not to be read into the claims. In re Etter, 756 F.2d 852, 858,
225 USPQ 1, 5 (Fed. Cir. 1985).
Claim 1 recites, inter alia, "[a] remote start control
system for a vehicle comprising a data communications bus . . . a
vehicle remote start controller connected to the data
communications bus . . .." From the language of the claim, we
find that the claim, as broadly drafted, reads on a data
communication bus that is part of the remote start control
system. Dery discloses (col. 6, lines 26-31) that the
microprocessor unit 20 generates control signals on a bus 24 that
leads to the various components of the vehicle that are
controlled, and that the bus 24 interfaces with the vehicle
wiring to carry out the desired functions. From the language
that the bus interfaces with the vehicle wiring, we find that the
bus is separate from the vehicle wiring. In addition, we take
notice1 that a bus is a communications link that uses one set of
wires to connect multiple subsystems. Because the bus is shown
to connect to the controlled components over individual lines, we
1 Computer Organization & Design, by David A. Patterson et al, © 1994
Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc. A copy of the pertinent pages is attached to
the Decision.
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