Appeal No. 1999-0972
Application 08/724,340
by Grant are such that the subject matter as a whole would
have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a
person having ordinary skill in the art is well taken.
Accordingly, we shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of claim 1 as being unpatentable over
Grant. We also shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103
rejection of dependent claims 2 through 16 and 18 through 26
as being unpatentable over Grant since the appellants have not
challenged such with any reasonable specificity, thereby
allowing these claims to stand or fall with parent claim 1
(see In re Nielson, supra).
We shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of claims 38 through 66 as being unpatentable over
Sawtell in view of Grant.
Sawtell discloses a multi-ply insulation blanket formed
of superposed insulating sheets tied together by adhesive-
reinforced stitching 11, scoring 18 or dimples 20. The
blanket is adapted to be disposed between structural members
such as the rafters 20 of a roof. According to Sawtell,1
1 Sawtell has employed reference numeral 20 to denote both
the dimples (see Figure 5) and the rafters (see Figure 7).
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