Appeal No. 1998-2113
Application No. 08/685,478
The following rejection is before us for review:
Claims 1 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
' 103 as being unpatentable over the Netherlands reference
in view of the Burleson reference.
According to the examiner=s findings (see page 2 of the
final office action (Paper No. 8) mailed April 24, 1997),
the Netherlands reference discloses a bulk container in the
form of a flexible sack having an interior reinforcing
structure in the form of flexible strips 4 connected to
interior faces of the sack to provide the sack with a
parallelepiped shape upon filling the sack with granular
material. The examiner concedes that the Netherlands
reference lacks a teaching of an outer package. He states,
however, that it is Awell known in the art to double wrap
products [thus providing an outer package around an inner
package] to provide more stability as taught by Burleson et
al.@ (answer, page 4). He thus concludes that it would
have made it obvious to provide an outer package around the
sack of the Netherlands reference.
Appellants do not take issue with the examiner=s
findings regarding the Netherlands reference as outlined
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