Appeal No. 97-1440
Application 08/187,838
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15 through 17 and
19. Dependent claim 18 has been objected to, but has also been
indicated to be allowable if rewritten in independent form
including all the limitations of the base claim and any inter-
vening claims. Claims 20 through 23 stand allowed. Claims 5, 8,
14, 24 and 25, the only other claims remaining in the
application, have been withdrawn from further consideration under
37 CFR § 1.142(b). Claims 4, 7, 11 and 12 have been canceled.
Appellant's invention relates to an identification
bracelet of the type traditionally used in areas such as hospital
patient admissions, where appropriate and/or desired information
relative to the patient must be printed on the bracelet. A copy
of representative claims 1, 6, 13 and 15 on appeal appears in the
Appendix to appellant's brief (Paper No. 16).
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
De Woskin 4,314,415 Feb. 9, 1982
Ohno et al. (Ohno) 0,552,656 July 28, 1993
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