Appeal No. 1999-1764
Application No. 08/827,544
seat belt assembly in a vehicle.” As further expressed by
appellant (specification, page 5),
In this way, the safety habit of buckling
up with a seat belt is reinforced when
buckling up a toy, doll, or stuffed
creature in the mounting assembly 10.
Each of independent claims 1 and 6 is drawn to a mounting
assembly for mounting a toy, doll or stuffed creature
comprising, inter alia, a suction cup, a strap, and a buckle
assembly for buckling the strap about a toy, doll, or stuffed
creature.
We turn now to the evidence of obviousness. This panel
of the board fully appreciates not only the teaching of each
applied document, but also the manner in which they are
applied by the examiner. However, as explained more fully
below, the difficulty we have with the rejection of
appellant’s claims is that when we set aside in our minds
appellant’s own disclosure in the present application, we
readily discern that the collective teachings themselves would
not have been suggestive of the mounting assembly now claimed.
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