Appeal No. 2003-1271 Page 2
Application No. 08/901,713
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to utility aprons useful for retaining various
items such as cleaning items (specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is
set forth 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:
Baumgartner 3,678,977 July 25, 1972
Lindsay 4,993,551 Feb. 19, 1991
Yoo 5,431,265 July 11, 1995
Claims 1 to 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Lindsay in view of Baumgartner.
Claims 1 to 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Lindsay in view of Baumgartner and Yoo.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 26, mailed March 6, 2002) and the answer (Paper No. 32, mailed
December 20, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections,
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