Appeal No. 95-4590
Application 08/056,188
in the art, from a collective consideration of the teachings
of the applied references, to incorporate the teachings of
Soubie into the Seasafe #4055 bag so that the closure of the
Seasafe #4055 bag forms a good, watertight seal. We concur.
Notwithstanding that appellants agree that the
Seasafe #4055 bag has a deformable opening, a semi-rigid
collar and a rigid screw-on cap, and that Soubie shows the use
of a threaded cap with a compressible gasket in a similar bag,
appellants urge that the applied references fail to teach a
threaded cap or plug holding a deformable neck in the proper
configuration for sealing engagement with a gasket carried by
the cap or plug (reply brief, page 2). While it is true that
the applied references do not provide any such express
teaching, we are of the view that one of
ordinary skill in the art would have recognized that the
arrangement of the semi-rigid collar and rigid cap of the
Seasafe #4055 bag would provide such a characteristic by
holding the neck por- tion of the semi-rigid collar in a
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