Appeal No. 1999-2364
Application No. 08/562,816
The appealed claims are drawn to a bed liner in
combination with a mattress, box spring, bed board, cot or
hammock (claims 1 to 10), or to a bed liner per se (claims 11
to 19 and 21), and are reproduced in the new appendix
submitted by appellant on September 22, 1999 (Paper No. 23).3
The references applied in the final rejection are:
North 2,525,713 Oct. 10,
1950
Chapuis 3,541,620 Nov. 24,
1970
Young 3,842,454 Oct. 22,
1974
Schuetze 4,413,368 Nov. 8,
1983
Hoss et al. (Hoss) 4,924,543 May 15,
1990
Gershman, Self-Adhering Nylon Tapes, 168 A.M.A. Journal No.7
(Oct. 18, 1958) (Gershman)
Claims 1 to 19 and 21 stand finally rejected on the
following grounds:
(1) Claims 1, 5 and 7, anticipated by North, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b);
(2) Claims 2, 3, 10, 18 and 19, unpatentable over North in
view of Schuetze and Hoss, under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a);
3In claim 5, line 4, we note that there should be a
comma before "from," and "the" should be --said--.
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