Appeal No. 2005-2603 Παγε 2
Application No. 10/118,068
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a driving apparatus comprising an oscillating
internal meshing planetary gear unit and an external unit, wherein a frictional
transmission unit constituted by a simple planetary roller mechanism is interposed
between the oscillating meshing planetary gear unit and the external unit. A copy of the
claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The Applied Prior Art
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Batchelder 1,871,835 Aug. 16, 1932
Minegishi et al. (Minegishi) 5,651,747 Jul. 29, 1997
The Rejection
Claims 1-6, 8, 9 and 14-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Minegishi in view of Batchelder.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(mailed December 14, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejections and to the brief (filed November 15, 2004) and reply brief (filed February 14,
2005) for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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