Appeal No. 98-2049
Application 08/549,061
Daniels 2,044,240 Jun. 16, 1936
Hoody 2,592,696 Apr. 15, 1952
Items relied upon by the appellant as evidence of non-
obviousness are:
The 37 CFR § 1.132 Declarations of Steve E. Bacque
and A. Kevin Alexander filed on June 10, 1996 as
part of Paper No. 4.
Claims 1 through 5, 7 and 8 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Schweitzer in view of
Muys, and claims 6 and 9 through 11 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Schweitzer in view of
Muys and Sauerbrey.
Reference is made to the appellant’s brief (Paper No. 9)
and to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 10) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of these rejections.
Schweitzer, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses
plural embodiments of a spinning lariat or lasso. In the
embodiment shown in Figure 1,
a hand hold 10 is connected by means of a swivel 11
to a fixed loop 12 formed in one end of a rope body
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