Appeal No. 2003-1648 Page 2
Application No. 09/648,359
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates generally to restraints for motor vehicles
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The applied prior art relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims
is:
Moroto et al. (Moroto) 5,389,824 Feb. 14, 1995
Steffens, Jr. et al. (Steffens) 5,413,378 May 9, 1995
Adolph et al. (Adolph) 5,785,347 July 28, 1998
Foo et al. (Foo) 6,036,225 Mar. 14, 2000
Fayyad et al. (Fayyad) 6,088,639 July 11, 2000
Claims 1, 2, 5 to 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Steffens in view of Fayyad and Moroto.
Claim 16 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Steffens in view of Fayyad and Moroto as applied to claim 11 above, and further in view
of Adolph.
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