Appeal No. 2003-0079 Page 2
Application No. 09/532,114
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a dual fuel system for an internal combustion
engine. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 6, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Takeda 4,327,675 May 4, 1982
Janach 6,196,204 Mar. 6, 2001
(Filed Nov. 7,1996)
Ikeda (Japanese Kokai)1 57-159949 Oct. 2, 1982
Claims 6, 8 and 10-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ikeda in view of Takeda and Janach.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 23) and the final rejection (Paper No. 18) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejection, and to the Brief (Paper No. 22) and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 26) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
10ur understanding of this foreign language reference was obtained from a PTO translation, a
copy of which is enclosed.
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