Appeal No. 2004-1109
Application No. 09/754,686
a spring emulator integral to and carried near the master
cylinder wherein isolation of the reservoir from said master
cylinder diverts fluid pressure into said spring emulator.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Campau et al. (Campau) 5,941,608 Aug. 24, 1999
Sasaki et al. (Sasaki) 6,056,013 May 02, 2000
Feigel et al. (Feigel) 196 40 767 A1 Apr. 09, 1998
(published German Offenlegungsschrift)2
Hoyt, Wade A. (ed.), Reader’s Digest Complete Car Care Manual
(Complete Car Care Manual), p. 111, The Reader’s Digest
Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York, 1981.
The claims on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as unpatentable over Campau in view of the Complete Car Care
Manual, Sasaki and Feigel (Answer, page 3, referring to the
complete exposition of the rejection in Paper No. 7). We affirm
the rejection on appeal essentially for the reasons stated in the
final Office action (Paper No. 7), the Answer, and for those
reasons set forth below.
2The examiner has relied upon U.S. Patent 6,354,673 to
Feigel et al. as the “English equivalent” to DE 196 40 767 A1
(Paper No. 7, page 2). Since appellants do not contest that
these documents are “equivalent” (see the Brief and Reply Brief
in their entirety), for purposes of this appeal and decision, we
rely upon and cite from U.S. Patent 6,354,673 as equivalent to
“Feigel.”
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