Appeal No. 97-1020
Application 08/229,650
know something about the relevant art apart from what the
references disclose. In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516, 135
USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA 1962). The purpose of a baby car seat
restraining system (harness) being to restrain the baby and
thereby prevent injury, one of ordinary skill would, in our
view, place the apertures in Miller's blanket at such
locations that the baby would be properly restrained by the
harness straps. In particular, the aperture for the crotch
strap would be placed between the baby's legs, and at such a
location that the strap would not be outside the blanket, in
view of Ranalli's disclosure at col. 1, line 65, to col. 2,
lines 2, that
if the restraint harness is placed over the
blanket in which the child is wrapped, the
restraint cannot be properly applied. The
crotch harness member cannot be properly
positioned between the child's legs, and
the child's arms are trapped beneath both
blanket and harness.
Since, in the Miller blanket, the baby's legs are contained
within the compartment 1, one of ordinary skill following this
teaching of Ranalli would not place the aperture for the
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