Appeal No. 2006-0022 Παγε 2
Application No. 09/810,943
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to vehicle safety restraint systems and more
particularly to a method and system for controlling the reaction of safety restraint
systems in response to weight and position of a vehicle occupant (specification, p. 1). A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Harris 3,661,220 May 9, 1972
Gagnon 5,810,392 Sep. 22, 1998
Mazur et al. (Mazur) 5,906,393 May 25, 1999
Research Disclosure 39916 July 1997
Claims 36 to 55 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Research Disclosure in view of Gagnon and Harris.
Claims 61 to 64 and 69 to 72 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Research Disclosure in view of Gagnon, Harris and Mazur.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
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