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.
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