Appeal No. 2004-1844 Page 2
Application No. 09/522,023
BACKGROUND
The appellant’s invention relates to a bolt-on wheel cover that is integrally
retained to, but thermally isolated from, lug nuts of a vehicle wheel (specification, page
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant’s
brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references in rejecting the
appealed claims:
Toth 5,520,445 May 28, 1996
Inaba JP 63-87301 Apr. 18, 19881
(Japanese patent document)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 24-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Inaba.
Claims 13-19 and 21-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Toth.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 18 and 23) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
1W e derive our understanding of this application from the English language translation provided
by appellant with Paper No. 11.
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