Appeal No. 1999-2101 Page 2
Application No. 08/929,012
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an apparatus for bite cutting garments. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 15, which
appears in the appendix to the appellant's Brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Gerber (‘980) 4,091,980 May 30, 1978
Gerber (‘820) 4,178,820 Dec. 18, 1979
Gerber (‘572) 5,141,572 Aug. 25, 1992
Le Blond 2 133 731 Aug. 1, 1984
(UK Patent Application)
Claims 15-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being
indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the
applicant regards as the invention.
Claims 15-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Gerber ‘572 in view of Gerber ‘820, Le Blond and Gerber ‘980.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer (Paper
No. 27) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief
(Paper No. 26) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 28) for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
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