Appeal No. 97-1020
Application 08/229,650
This is an appeal from the rejection of claims 1 to
3 and 6 to 11, all the claims remaining in the application.2
The claims on appeal are drawn to a baby blanket
which is adapted for use with a baby or infant car seat, and
are reproduced in the appendix of appellants' brief.
The references applied by the examiner are:
Hoover 3,477,065 Nov. 11, 1969
Miller 4,172,300 Oct. 30, 1979
Ranalli 4,993,090 Feb. 19, 1991
Crosby 5,058,226 Oct. 22, 1991
Gibson 5,238,293 Aug. 24, 1993
The appealed claims stand rejected as unpatentable
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over the following combinations of
references:
(1) Claims 1, 2 and 6 to 9, Miller in view of Ranalli;
(2) Claims 11 and 12, Miller in view of Ranalli and Hoover;
(3) Claim 13, Miller in view of Ranalli and Gibson;
(4) Claims 3 and 10, Miller in view of Ranalli and Crosby.
Rejection (1)
2The appeal was taken from the second rejection of
claims 1, 2, 6 to 9 and 11 to 13 in Paper No. 9. The rejec-
tion of claims 3 and 10 was a new ground of rejection made in
the examiner's answer.
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