Appeal No. 2002-1187
Application No. 09/403,115
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Smith et al. (Smith ‘347) 4,967,347 Oct. 30, 1990
Mutone 5,086,499 Feb. 04, 1992
Giers (Giers ‘082) DE 43 41 082 Jun. 08, 1995
Giers (Giers ‘434) DE 195 29 434 Feb. 13, 1997
Smith, S.E., “Triple Redundant Fault Tolerance: A Hardware Implemented Approach,”
ISA Transactions, Vol. 30, Number 4, pages 87-95, 1991. (Smith article)
Claims 10-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Giers (‘434 or ‘082) in view of (Smith ‘347 or Mutone or Smith article).
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 17, mailed Dec. 28, 2001) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
the rejections, and to appellant's brief (Paper No. 16, filed Nov. 5, 2001) for appellant's
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art references, and to the
respective positions articulated by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of
our review, we make the determinations which follow.
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