Appeal No. 2003-1181
Application No. 09/755,575
Claim 20, also added in the above-noted amendment after
final, stands allowed. Claims 11, 12 and 18, the only other
claims remaining in the application, have been indicated to
contain allowable subject matter, but stand objected to until
such time that they are rewritten in independent form including
all the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claims 7 and 17 have been canceled.
Appellant's invention is directed to an emergency traction
apparatus for use on a vehicle tire, wherein the apparatus
comprises an elongated sleeve or sleeve means (e.g., 22 of Fig.
2) having a bore (24) extending therethrough, a strap or strap
means (40) extending through the bore in the sleeve for securing
the sleeve to a vehicle tire, and traction enhancing means (e.g.,
32, 36, 138) on the sleeve. Independent claims 1 and 15 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims may be found in the Appendix to appellant's brief.
1(...continued)
of independent claim 1, we have assumed for purposes of this
appeal that dependent claim 21 was to have been rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based on Granryd.
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