Appeal No. 2002-2067
Application No. 09/411,730
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the
respective positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
An anticipatory reference is one which describes all of the
elements of the claimed invention so as to have placed a person
of ordinary skill in the art in possession thereof. In re Spada,
911 F.2d 205, 15 USPQ2d 1655 (Fed. Cir. 1990).
The examiner offers Doyle as disclosing all of the elements
of claims 1-5, 7, 8 and 10-18. In particular, the examiner
contends that Doyle discloses a method of actuating electrical
components of a vehicle for performing a diagnostic analysis on
the electrical components (citing Figures 1 and 3, column 1,
lines 61-66; column 2, lines 60-64; and column 5, lines 3-15).
In addition to identifying other claimed elements in Doyle, the
examiner further cites Figure 1, column 2, lines 56-67; column 4,
lines 19-30; and column 5, lines 9-11, as disclosing the claimed
actuation of a plurality of electrical components on the vehicle
in response to a signal from the transmitter.
We will sustain the rejection of claims 1-4, 7, 8, 15 and 17
although we do not agree with all of the examiner’s reasoning.
It is clear, from a reading of Doyle, that the reference is
directed to a remote control transmitter for a vehicle which
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