Appeal No. 1999-2365
Application 08/569,999
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 to 12 and 14 to 31, all the claims remaining in the applica-
tion.
The appealed claims are drawn to an emergency care
blanket, and a copy thereof is included in Appendix A of
appellant's brief.2
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Shears 3,083,430 Apr. 2, 1963
Goldman 3,477,552 Nov. 11, 1969
Buchman 4,261,058 Apr. 14, 1981
Asher 4,484,362 Nov. 27, 1984
Prandina 4,573,227 Mar. 4, 1986
Russell 4,757,832 July 19, 1988
Haruvy et al. (Haruvy) 4,872,220 Oct. 10, 1989
Scherer 4,884,303 Dec. 5, 1989
Goldstein 4,989,282 Feb. 5, 1991
Ackley 5,010,610 Apr. 30, 1991
An additional reference, of record, applied herein
in a rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b), is:
Thier 5,533,216 July 9,
19963
2We note that in the copy of claim 20, line 3, "fire" is
misspelled. Also, in any future prosecution, claim 17 should
be corrected by inserting --of-- after "plurality" in line 3,
and in claim 29, line 2, "configuration" should be plural.
3This reference was cited by the examiner in the first
Office action (Paper No. 3).
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