Appeal No. 97-1977
Application 07/970,862
obviousness of the claimed method defined in appellant's claims
32 through 36, 38, 40 through 45 and 47 through 52. Contrary to
the examiner's view, we fail to perceive any teaching, suggestion
or incentive in the patents relied upon which would have
motivated one of ordinary skill in the art to use the security
wallet of Williams for carrying and reading of a map in the
particular manner urged by the examiner.
Connell addresses the problem (col. 1, lines 44-56) of
carrying a ski area trail map in zippered or otherwise sealable
pockets of ski apparel and the need for the skier to remove
heavily insulated gloves or mittens and ski poles before being
able to retrieve the map from such a pocket when stopping to make
certain of one's location or the location of a desired trail. As
noted in column 1, lines 59-65, of Connell, the invention in the
patent was developed specifically as a solution to the above-
noted problem and allows a skier to
have instantly available a ski area map for
convenient reference without requiring that
ski poles be unstrapped from ski mittens, ski
mittens be removed from hands, a ski pocket
be unzippered, cold hands be required to hold
a map for reference, and the reverse sequence
of activities be repeated before skiing can
be recommenced.
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