Appeal No. 97-0747
Application 08/443,258
23 through 27. Claim 22, the only other claim pending in the application, stands objected to as
depending from a rejected base claim.
The invention relates to a method for fabricating surgical gowns having circularly-knitted sleeve
cuffs. A copy of the appealed claims appears in the appendix to the appellants’ main brief (Paper No.
9).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Bausher 1,873,811 Aug. 23, 1932
Wulsin 2,414,845 Jan. 28, 1947
Tames 3,011,172 Dec. 5, 1961
Neckerman et al. (Neckerman) 4,752,972 Jun. 28, 1988
The appealed claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
a) claims 15, 16, 18 through 21 and 23 through 27 as being unpatentable over Neckerman in
view of Tames and Bausher; and
b) claim 17 as being unpatentable over Neckerman in view of Tames and Bausher, and further
in view of Wulsin.
Reference is made to the appellants’ main and reply briefs (Paper Nos. 9 and 11) and to the
examiner’s final rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 7 and 10) for the respective positions of the
appellants and the examiner with regard to the merits of these rejections. In the main brief, the
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