Appeal No. 97-4178
Application No. 08/474,943
rewritten in independent form. Also, in his answer the
examiner states that the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, and
the rejection of claim 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, have been
withdrawn. Since claim 12 was rejected only under § 112,
claims 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 11, 13, 14 and 16 to 19 remain for
our consideration.
The subject matter in issue concerns a child restraint
system, a clip for use therewith, and a method for securing a
child in such a system. The claims on appeal are set forth in
the appendix to appellants’ brief.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Peek 4,592,592 Jun.
3, 1986
Chollet et al. (Chollet) 3 93/21044 Oct. 28,
1993
(WIPO Application)
The claims on appeal stand finally rejected as follows:
(1) Claims 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 and 17 to 19, unpatentable over
3A translation of this document, prepared for the PTO,
is enclosed herewith. All references in this decision to
Chollet by page and line are to pages and lines of the
translation.
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