Appeal No. 2004-1175 Page 2
Application No. 09/850,307
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an apparatus to enable movement of a
bicycle having a flat tire without having to carry such bicycle and/or riding such bicycle
with such tire being deflated (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is
set forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Graber 4,802,594 Feb. 7, 1989
Caddick GB 2 224 701 A May 16, 1990
Claims 1 to 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Graber in view of Caddick.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 12, mailed December 5, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 11, filed September 8, 2003) for the
appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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