Appeal No. 97-3187
Application No. 07/999,422
disposed within the fold of the lateral folded edge. Proposed
claim 15 was directed to a method of securing a wire filament
along an edge of a fabric ribbon. Proposed claim 15 differed
from allowed claim 7 in the language used in the stitching
step.
The amendment under Rule 312 was disapproved (see Paper
No. 11, mailed November 11, 1989). The reason stated for not
entering the amendment was that proposed claim 14 would not be
patentable over the newly cited patent to Stevens (U.S. Patent
No. 1,657,184).
The appellants paid the issue fee on December 7, 1989
and this application issued as U.S. Patent No. 4,901,661 on
February 20, 1990.
Application No. 07/470,974
Application No. 07/470,974 was filed by the appellants on
January 26, 1990 as a 37 CFR § 1.60 continuation of
Application No. 07/321,720 (the parent application). Claims 1
through 13 from the parent application were canceled and new
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