Appeal No. 1999-2364
Application No. 08/562,816
Rejection (6)
This rejection will not be sustained, since Gershman does
not supply the deficiency noted in the rejection of claim 13,
supra (under rejection (4)).
Rejection (7)
This rejection will likewise not be sustained inasmuch as
the rejection of parent claim 18 will not be sustained (under
rejection (2), supra), and Young does not supply the
deficiency noted as to that rejection.
Rejection (8)
Of particular interest in this rejection is the
arrangement shown in Fig. 2 of Chapuis, where a sleeping bag
has been formed by folding the fabric of Fig.1, with layer 4
on the outside (col. 2, lines 42 and 46); thus, there is a
fold down the right hand edge of the bag, producing a top
fabric sheet and a bottom fabric sheet of the same width and
length, connected at the right side edge. While not described
in the specification, Chapuis appears to show in Fig. 2, as
appellant states on page 8 of the brief, "a zipper extending
along the bottom, [left] side, and top thereof." Since the
zipper is shown as closed along the bottom of the bag,
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