Appeal No. 1997-0262
Application 08/286,795
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1, 3 through 8 and 10 through 16,
which are all of the claims remaining in the application.
Claims 2 and 9 have been canceled.
Appellants’ invention relates to a serviceable,
tethered cover, airbag system wherein the cover can be discon-
nected and reconnected to the tether without disturbance of
the connection at the other end of the tether. A copy of
representative claims 1 and 8 can be found in the Appendix to
appellants’ brief.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner
in rejecting the appealed claims are:
MacFadden 2,099,655 Nov. 16,
1937
Hirabayashi 4,911,471 Mar. 27,
1990
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