Appeal No. 95-4590
Application 08/056,188
configuration conforming to the closure member and thereby
allow the neck portion to properly come into engagement with a
seal positioned in the closure member in the manner taught by
Soubie (Fig. 3). Thus, finding appellants' argument to be
unpersuasive, we will sustain the examiner's rejection of
claim 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Considering next the examiner's rejection of
independent claim 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, we note that claim
21 differs from claim 27 by requiring that the bag as in claim
27 include certain additional features, such as, a tether (39)
for retaining the closure member to the body of the bag when
the closure member is removed from the neck portion, a
transparent viewing port (40) in the sidewall of the bag, a
plurality of grommets and rings (43) affixed to the sidewall
of the bag for attachment of objects to the bag, a carrying
strap (45) removably connected to two of the rings, and a
valve (42) through which air may be introduced into the cavity
of the bag to inflate the bag. To account for these
additional features, the examiner notes that the Seasafe
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