Appeal No. 96-1608
Application 08/220,462
the claims pending in the application. We reverse and enter 2
new rejections of claims 3, 7, 9, 10, 12 and 14 through 16
pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
The invention relates to an articulated skeletal frame
for a doll. Copies of representative claims 9 and 10 appear
in the appendix to the appellant’s brief (Paper No. 25).
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Rapata 3,539,234 Nov. 10, 1970
Cotey et al. (Cotey) 4,268,991 May 26, 1981
Refabert 4,954,118 Sept. 4, 1990
Deichmann 3 35,744 Jun. 15, 1935
(Dutch Patent Document)
Claims 3, 9, 10, 12, 15 and 16 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Deichmann in view of
Rapata and Cotey, and claims 7 and 14 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Deichmann in view of
2Claim 7 has been amended subsequent to final rejection.
3An English language translation of this reference,
prepared by the Patent and Trademark Office, is appended
hereto.
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