Appeal No. 2001-2656 Page 2
Application No. 09/208,514
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a carrying bag. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which reads as follows:
1. A carrying bag including:
at least one storage compartment,
said at least one storage compartment being formed from a recess
defined in a first surface of said carrying bag, a material covering said
recess, and access means operatively associated with said material to
permit an article to be received in said recess and retained in said recess
by said material, said material being expandable into an expanded
configuration to accommodate a portion fo said article received in said
recess and extending beyond said first surface of said carrying bag, said
material being automatically retractable into a retracted configuration
substantially planar with said first surface of said carrying bag when said
article is removed from said recess.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Cunningham 3,321,120 May 23, 1967
Zakarin 5,950,895 Sep. 14, 1999
(filed Dec. 17, 1997)
British Patent Specification 607,133 Aug. 26, 1948
(Platts)
Danish Patent1 57,338 Mar. 4, 1940
(Pederson)
Claims 1-10 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as
containing subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as
1Our understanding of this foreign language document was obtained by means of a PTO
translation, a copy of which is enclosed.
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