Appeal No. 1998-1608 Page 10
Application No. 08/429,926
Hicks' fastening strap so as to arrive at the subject matter
of claim 1.
For the reasons stated above, the decision of the
examiner to reject claim 1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
Claims 4 through 7
The decision of the examiner to reject dependent claims 4
through 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed for the reasons
stated above with respect to parent independent claim 1.
Claim 8
With respect to claim 8, the examiner ascertained (final
rejection, p. 3) that
Hicks does not anticipate the strap to be releasably
attachable to the first flap (i.e., the overlapping one
of the two flaps).
With regard to this difference, the examiner then determined
that
permanent affixation of the strap to either the
overlapping flap or the overlapped flap would have been
obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art given
Hicks' teaching of overlapping flaps being secured with
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