Appeal No. 2006-1295
Application 10/427,072
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 9, 10 and 12-19 over Suzuki in view of Abel and Masuda,
and claims 11 and 20-22 over Suzuki in view of Abel, Masuda and
Knoll.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 9, 18 and 20.
Each of those claims requires an indicator that emits light of a
first color when a cruise control system is in the on condition,
and emits light of a second color when the cruise control system
is in the set condition.
Suzuki discloses a cruise control system having indicators
that show when the system is in the on condition (indicator 131)
and the set condition (indicator 132) (col. 4, lines 20-21;
figure 1).
Abel discloses a motor vehicle instrument cluster display,
“the color and/or brightness of the display of more than one
measured value being changed when a value of a measured variable
is overshot or undershot and/or when a certain operating state of
the motor vehicle is entered. This change can be better
perceived by the driver” (col. 1, lines 34-39). “If unauthorized
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