Appeal No. 97-1020
Application 08/229,650
The basis of this rejection, as set forth on pages 2
and 3 of Paper No. 9, is:
Miller teaches a baby blanket with a dia-
mond shaped rear sheet, a front sheet at-
tached to
the rear sheet forming an open topped com-
partment substantially as claimed except
for
the rear sheet having at least three or
more aperture forming means.
The patent to Ranalli teaches aperture
forming means to be old and well known in
the art. It would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art to modify the
Miller device such that the rear sheet had
at least three or more aperture forming
means as taught to be old by Ranalli
thereby providing the obvious advantage of
use in a car seat.
Turning to appellants' arguments, we note initially
that they assert that Ranalli's blanket "is placed over the
car seat in an orientation that is turned at 45E from that
shown in Miller" (brief, pages 4 to 5). We do not consider
this argument to be well taken because Ranalli discloses in
Fig. 9 an embodi- ment in which the apertures are at 45E to
the borders of the blanket (col. 4, lines 58-62). This
embodiment would be usable in the situation where, as with the
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