Appeal No. 2004-0129
Application No. 09/230,720
or a local area network. Claim 26 is illustrative of the claimed
invention, and it reads as follows:
26. A control system of a machine for making a fibrous web,
comprising:
a plurality of actuators, each assigned to one final control
element to vary certain properties of said fibrous web; and
said actuators forming intelligent participants in a
decentralized communications hardware structure, in which said
actuators are coupled to one another through at least one of a
closed pipeline ring and a local area network.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Spinner et al. (Spinner) 5,771,174 Jun. 23, 1998
Flamm et al. (Flamm) 5,988,846 Nov. 23, 1999
(filed Jun. 05, 1997)
Claim 51 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Spinner.
Claims 26 through 50 and 52 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Spinner in view of Flamm.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 17,
mailed April 8, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejections, and to appellant's Brief (Paper
No. 16, filed January 27, 2003) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 19,
filed June 9, 2003) for appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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