Opinion ID: 4243797
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Heading: Hickey

Text: Hickey is directed to “provid[ing] a wheeled high speed, cross-country, rough terrain vehicle suitable for use as a reconnaissance vehicle for use with highly mobile armored forces or for use as a family recreational vehicle.” Hickey, col. 1, ll. 11–15. The specification explains that “presently known vehicles are not capable of operating with modern armored forces at sufficiently high speed and safety in rough terrain conditions,” and declares that: [t]he vehicle of the present invention achieves this higher mobility through a novel drive train that takes power from the transmission and divides it between a front differential and a rear limited slip differential by means of an interaxle differential that incorporates a limited slip features [sic] in both forward or reverse. 8 POLARIS INDUSTRIES, INC. v. ARCTIC CAT, INC. Id. col. 1, ll. 15–25.