Appeal No. 2000-0873
Application No. 08/975,983
1986).
Ralph Lauren Brochure (Admitted Prior Art).
The following rejections are before us for review:
(a) claims 44-48, 55-63 and 69-72, rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, “as containing subject matter which
was not described in the specification is such a way as to
reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the
inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had
possession of the claimed invention” (final rejection, page
3)1;
(b) claims 44-47, 55-63 and 69-72, rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Mayer in view of Milne
and DePauw;
(c) claim 48, rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
1 Although the statement of this ground of rejection does not appear in
the examiner’s answer, it is clear from the record (see, for example, pages
13-14 of the brief and pages 6-7 of the answer) that it is being maintained on
appeal.
3
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