Appeal No. 2001-0557 Page 2
Application 09/376,548
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a package for an athletic glove (claims 1-10 and
20), to the combination of an athletic glove and a package (claims 11, 12 and 14-16), and
to a method for maintaining an athletic glove (claims 17 and 18). An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1, 11 and 17, which appear in
the appendix to the Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Marks 4,061,170 Dec. 6, 1977
Cavan 4,269,347 May 26, 1981
Schlaupitz et al. (Schlaupitz) 5,269,430 Dec. 14, 1993
Haarlander 5,718,336 Feb. 17, 1998
“Official Notice” of the conventional use of retention beads such as the ones in compact
disk containers to hold information concerning the contents.
The following rejections stand under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a):1
(1) Claims 1, 2, 5-10, 17 and 18 on the basis of Marks, Haarlander and Cavan.
(2) Claims 3 and 4 on the basis of Marks, Haarlander, Cavan and Schlaupitz.
(3) Claims 11, 12, 14 and 16 on the basis of Marks and Schlaupitz.
(4) Claim 15 on the basis of Marks, Schlaupitz, Haarlander and Cavan.
(5) Claim 20 on the basis of Marks, Haarlander, Cavan and Official Notice.
1Rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, were withdrawn in the
Answer.
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