Appeal No. 2002-2073 Application No. 09/210,104 Page 15 the program and detecting and correcting the malfunction only in response to a determination that a malfunction has occurred, the rejection of independent claims 9 and 17, as well as claims 10, 11, 14-18, and 22-24, dependent therefrom, is reversed. We turn next to the rejection of claims 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over Borchardt in view of Mann, and further in view of Alexander. We reverse the rejection of claim 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, and 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) because Alexander does not make up for the basic deficiencies of Borchardt and Mann.Page: Previous 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007