Appeal 2006-3408
Application 10/885,524
invention was made. Each of the elements of Titterton, Montano, and Fields or
De Forrest combined by the Examiner performs the same function when combined
as it does in the prior art. Thus, such a combination would have yielded
predictable results. See Sakraida, 425 U.S. at 282, 189 USPQ at 453.
Claim 13 is a combination which only unites old elements with no change in
their respective functions and which yields predictable results. Thus, the claimed
subject matter likely would have been obvious under KSR. In addition, neither
Appellants’ Specification nor Appellants’ arguments present any evidence that the
addition of an LED lock status indicator to a motorcycle wheel disk lock reminder
system is uniquely challenging or difficult for one of ordinary skill in the art.
Moreover, the LED lock status indicators of Fields or De Forrest are techniques
that have been used to improve certain devices (the door locks of Fields or De
Forrest), and one of skill in the art would recognize that they would improve
similar devices in the same manner.
Because Appellants have not shown that the application of the LED lock
status indicator of Fields or De Forrest to the motorcycle wheel disk lock reminder
system of the combination of Titterton and Montano would have been beyond the
skill of one of skill in the art, we find using the techniques would have been
obvious. Under those circumstances, the Examiner did not err in holding that it
would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to add a conventional LED lock status indicator as taught by
Fields or De Forrest to the motorcycle wheel disk lock reminder system of the
combination of Titterton and Montano in order to facilitate use of the lock by
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