Appeal No. 2002-2175
Serial No. 09/060,960
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being obvious over Connell.
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being obvious over Connell in view of West.
Claims 1 through 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being obvious over a conventional golf glove package in view
of Connell.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 33 and 35) and to the examiner’s answer (Paper
No. 34) for the respective positions of the appellants and the
examiner regarding the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
I. Grouping of claims
On page 4 in the main brief, the appellants state that
“[c]laims 1-5 stand or fall together.” In accordance with this
statement, and pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we shall decide
the appeal with respect to each of the examiner’s rejections on
the basis of independent claim 1 alone. In other words,
dependent claims 2 through 5 shall stand or fall with claim 1 for
each rejection.
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