Appeal No. 96-1830 Application 08/101,668 said left side section relative to said right side section such that said brace encircles the wearer and such that the fit of the brace with respect to the wearer may be adjusted; and (e) position maintaining means located on said brace so as to be adapted to cooperatively engage underlying clothing of a user for releasably securing said brace to the clothing so as to prevent said brace from being urged upward and out of a preselected position during use in both said supporting configuration and said non-supporting configuration; said position maintaining means comprising first and second loops sized and aligned to receive a second pant’s belt that also passes through loops of pants of a user when said brace is in a user encircling configuration; and said first loop being located on said left side section and said second loop being located on said right side section and said first and second loops are located so that during use said first and second loops are located to the front side of the user so as to facilitate the placement of said pant’s belt through said first and second loops; and further said first and second loops being located on said belt inward facing surface. The references relied upon by the examiner are: Votel et al. (Votel) 5,176,131 Jan. 5, 1993 (filed Jun. 21, 1990) Castel et al. (Castel) 225,188,586 Feb. 23, 1993 Claims 1 through 5 and 23 stand rejected: a) under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by 2As indicated in note 1, supra, the instant application is the grandchild of the application from which the Castel patent issued. -3-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007