Appeal No. 2004-0061
Application 09/745,762
large interior compartment of the bag (2) therein and divided
therefrom by an interior dividing wall, with the second interior
compartment sharing a portion of the interior surface of the
first large interior compartment and having a second opening in
the exterior surface of the bag leading only to said second
interior compartment, whereby the mat may be rolled into said
second interior compartment and retained therein and segregated
from the remainder of the first large interior compartment.
Shreim describes the flap (14) therein as being “attached to
the lower edge of the side 16 of the bag” (page 1, lines 75-84)
and the sheets (20, 22), in a storage position, as laying against
“the side of the bag” (page 1, lines 30-32). Thus, it is clear
to us that the compartment defined between the side (16) of the
bag in Shreim and the flap (14) attached thereto for storing the
sheets (20, 22) would have been viewed by one of ordinary skill
in the art as being an exterior compartment added on to an
exterior surface of the bag, and clearly distinguishable from
appellant’s “second interior compartment” carved out of and
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