Appeal No. 1999-2364
Application No. 08/562,816
Rejection (2) also will not be sustained as to claim 18,
and claim 19 dependent thereon, because neither North,
Schuetze nor Hoss teaches or suggests the use of "a plurality
of spaced, in line snap fasteners" as recited in claim 18.
Rejection (3)
Since the secondary references applied in this rejection
do not render obvious the differences between parent claim 1
and the disclosure of North noted in the discussion of
rejection (1), supra, rejection (3) will not be sustained.
Rejection (4)
This rejection will not be sustained as to claims 6 and
9, for the same reason as stated in the foregoing paragraph
concerning rejection (3).
Independent claim 13 recites, inter alia, that portions
of the bottom sheet top face and top sheet bottom face
"comprise sweatshirt fleece." The examiner states the basis
of this rejection on page 5 of the final rejection as:
North fails to discloses the top sheet
having a bottom face comprised of fleece.
Young discloses a top sheet 12 having a
bottom face comprised of a soft plush
fabric such as wool or cotton (col. 3 lines
19-24). It would have been obvious to
place the fabric surface as taught by Young
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