Appeal No. 2006-0409 Παγε 2
Application No. 10/439,736
The appellants’ invention relates to a system for monitoring the locking of safety
bars for chairs in a chairlift system (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under
appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants’ brief.
The Prior Art References
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Pearson 4,003,314 Jan. 18, 1977
Tremblay et al. (Tremblay) 5,533,594 Jul. 9, 1996
Yu 5,939,795 Aug. 17, 1999
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 to 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatenable over
Pearson in view of Tremblay and Yu.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(mailed May 5, 2005) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections,
and to the brief (filed March 30, 2005) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
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