Appeal No. 2003-1747
Application 09/647,296
allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the
limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.”
Accordingly, the appeal as to claims 13 through 15 and 17 is
dismissed, and only the examiner’s rejections of claims 8 through
12 and 16 remain for our consideration on appeal.
Appellants’ invention relates to a device for controlling
restraint devices in a motor vehicle and seeks to guarantee
reliable real-time operation of the restraint devices and to
provide each occupant of the vehicle individually with the
greatest possible protection in a wide variety of accident
situations. The essential aspects and objectives of appellants’
invention are set forth on pages 2 through 6 of the
specification, wherein an exemplary one of the plurality of data
processing units and its manner of operation are described.
Independent claim 8 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of that claim can be found in the Appendix to
appellants’ brief.
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