Appeal 2006-1324
Application 09/882,127
Honkura EP 0 348 557 Jan. 03, 1990
Claims 1-2, 4, 7-11, 21-23, 25, and 28-32 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Appellant's admission of the
prior art in view of von der Heide, Hinke or Normann.
Claims 6, 12-18, 20, 27, 33-39 and 41 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§103(a) as being unpatentable over Appellant's admission of the prior art in
view of von der Heide, Hinke or Normann and further in view of Wiegand.
Claims 19 and 40 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 03(a) as being
unpatentable over Appellant's admission of the prior art in view of von der
Heide, Hinke or Normann and further in view of Yeoman.
Claims 21, 25, 28-32, 41 and 42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Appellant's admission of the prior art in
view of Honkura.
Claims 21, 25, 28-32, and 41-43 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103(a) as being unpatentable over Appellant's admission of the prior art in
view of Chiriac.
ISSUES
Accordingly, the sole issue for consideration on appeal is whether the
examiner has, by a preponderance of the evidence, established the
obviousness of the claimed subject matter.
FINDINGS OF FACT
The patent to von der Heide is directed to an apparatus and method for
controlling brushless electric motors, and specifically for encoding the
position of the motor rotor. Von der Heide uses internal means for
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