Appeal No. 2004-1223 Page 2
Application No. 09/842,142
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a remote control running toy which is
operated by a remote controller (specification, p. 1). A copy of dependent claim 2 is set
forth in the appendix to the appellant's brief. Claim 1 reads as follows:
A remote control running toy, comprising:
a suspended chassis for supporting a car body thereon,
a rear-wheel driving mechanism for running the chassis by driving a pair
of right and left rear wheels fitted respectively at the right and left rear sides of
the chassis;
a pair of uprights, each having a kingpin for steerably supporting a pair of
right and left front wheels which are fitted respectively at the right and left front
sides of the chassis; and
a steering mechanism coupled through steering rods with the uprights;
wherein the running toy further comprises a shock absorber for absorbing
a shock transmitted through the steering rods and wherein the shock absorber is
a coil spring member formed by winding up a part of the steering rods in a coil
form.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Suto 5,338,246 Aug. 16, 1994
Liebert 5,383,675 Jan. 24, 1995
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Suto in view of Liebert.
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