Ex parte BATTLEY - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1997-1022                                       Page 3           
          Application No. 08/368,359                                                  


                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellant's invention relates to a clothing insert.                
          An understanding of the invention can be derived from a                     
          reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to              
          the appellant's brief.                                                      


               The prior art references of record (i.e., the applied                  
          prior art) relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the                     
          appealed claims are:                                                        
          Mann                          3,619,819                     Nov.            
          16, 1971                                                                    
          Oram                          5,388,275                     Feb.            
          14, 1995                                                                    
                                                  (filed Oct. 19, 1992)               
          Moretz et al.            5,392,467                     Feb. 28,             
          1995                                                                        
          (Moretz)                                (filed Apr. 15, 1993)               



               Claims 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 through 9 stand rejected under                 
          35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Oram in view of                  
          Mann.                                                                       










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