Appeal No. 1998-1609
Application No. 08/589022
The invention before us pertains to a garment anchoring
system. A basic understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears
in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No. 10).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
documents listed below:
Larsen 5,033,121 Jul. 23, 1991
Atwater et al. 5,131,100 Jul. 21,
1992
(Atwater)
The following rejection is before us for review.2
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Larsen in view of Atwater.
The full text of the examiner’s rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellant appears in the final
rejection and the answer (Paper Nos. 6 and 11), while the
complete statement of appellant’s argument can be found in the
brief (Paper No. 10).
OPINION
2A final rejection of claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, was overcome, as indicated in an advisory
action (Paper No. 8).
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