Appeal No. 1999-2100
Application No. 08/850,825
The appellant's invention is directed to a disposable
plastic slipper. The claims on appeal have been reproduced in
an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Rigsby 3,058,241 Oct. 16,
1962
Ito 4,030,212 Jun. 21,
1977
Krippelz 4,112,599 Sep. 12,
1978
Kolsky 5,274,846 Jan. 4,
1994
THE REJECTIONS
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
(1) Claims 1 and 3 on the basis of Krippelz and Kolsky.2
2Since claim 3 depends from claim 2, which stands
rejected on the basis of Krippelz, Kolsky and Ito, it is
apparent that claim 3 should not have been included in this
rejection, but with claims 2 and 4. Moreover, since claim 4
depends from claim 1 and adds only that the two elements of
the slipper be heat bonded together, a feature that is taught
by Krippelz, we are at a loss to understand why claim 4 has
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