Appeal No. 2004-0200
Application No. 09/908,709
said battery and converting said electrical energy into
mechanical energy;
a drive train receiving said mechanical energy for
moving said vehicle;
pedals operable by an occupant of said vehicle to
create mechanical energy;
a first generator converting said mechanical energy
from said pedals to first electrical energy, said first
electrical energy from said generator supplied to said electrical
motor; and
an internal combustion engine supplying energy to said
drive train.
THE REFERENCES
Dessert 4,181,188 Jan. 1, 1980
Deguchi et al. (Deguchi) 6,083,139 Jul. 4, 2000
Chung et al. (Chung) 6,114,775 Sep. 5, 2000
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1, 3-6, 8 and 9 over Dessert in view of Deguchi, and
claim 7 over Dessert in view of Deguchi and Chung.
OPINION
We affirm the aforementioned rejections.
The appellant states that the claims stand or fall together
(brief, page 2). Although an additional reference is applied to
claim 7, the appellant does not separately argue that claim. We
therefore limit our discussion to one claim, i.e., claim 1, which
is the sole independent claim. See In re Ochiai, 71 F.3d 1565,
1566 n.2, 37 USPQ2d 1127, 1129 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 1995); 37 CFR
§ 1.192(c)(7)(1997).
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