Appeal No. 2006-0373 Παγε 6
Application No. 10/181,625
magnet, as in Figures 3a-3c. Claims 24-27 are directed to the steer-by-wire system
incorporating the braking device of Figures 3a-3c and the steering wheel actuator 9
including a rotor and stator, an invention which, as discussed above, is fully described in
the appellants' specification so as to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and
use the invention. Their dependence from claims 13 and 14 does not, as the examiner
suggests, constitute a combination of the two different braking devices of Figures 3a-3c
and Figures 4a-4c. Independent claims 13 and 14 recite the braking device generically
and thus do not appear to be limited to either embodiment of braking device.
For the reasons discussed above, the examiner's rejection of claims 24-27 under
the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is reversed.
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