Appeal No. 2006-0521 Παγε 2
Application No. 10/453,147
The appellants' invention relates to a bulkhead assembly for motor vehicles and
more specifically to a modular front end for a motor vehicle (specification, pages 1 and
3). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellants'
brief.
The prior art
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Hedderly 6,517,145 Feb. 11, 2003
Novak et al. (Novak) WO/00/07867 Feb. 17, 2000
The rejection
Claims 1 to 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Hedderly in view of Novak.
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 September 24, 2004) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the
rejections, and to the brief (filed July 19, 2004) and reply brief (filed November 22, 2004)
for the appellants' arguments thereagainst.
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