Appeal No. 97-1020
Application 08/229,650
equipment to hold a bottle, toys, etc., would have been
obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art.
Rejection (3) will accordingly be sustained.
Rejection (4)
This rejection will be sustained as to claim 3, but
not as to claim 10. Claim 3 essentially calls only for
truncation of
the bottom corner of the rear sheet, and we consider that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill to truncate
the bottom corner of Miller's blanket 2 at the bottom edge of
compartment 1 if it were desired to eliminate excess material
hanging below the compartment, such as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
The area fractions recited in the claim, as well as
the extent of the bottom edge of the front sheet in relation
to the bottom edge of the rear sheet, are not disclosed as
solving any stated problem and appear to be simply obvious
matters of design choice.
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