Appeal No. 96-1726
Application 08/146,498
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 11. These claims constitute all of the claims in the
application.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a surgical gown. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the “APPENDIX” of
appellant’s brief.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied
the patents listed below:
Tames 3,011,172 Dec. 5, 1961
Krzewinski 3,868,728 Mar. 4, 1975
Schwarze et al. (Schwarze) 4,736,467 Apr. 12, 1988
Holt 5,271,100 Dec. 21, 1993
(filed Aug. 27, 1992)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 through 3, 7, 8, 10, and 11 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Tames in view of
Holt and Schwarze.
Claims 4 through 6, 9, and 10 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Tames in view of Holt
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