Appeal No. 1997-1022 Page 3 Application No. 08/368,359 BACKGROUND The appellant's invention relates to a clothing insert. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to the appellant's brief. The prior art references of record (i.e., the applied prior art) relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are: Mann 3,619,819 Nov. 16, 1971 Oram 5,388,275 Feb. 14, 1995 (filed Oct. 19, 1992) Moretz et al. 5,392,467 Feb. 28, 1995 (Moretz) (filed Apr. 15, 1993) Claims 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Oram in view of Mann.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007