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          Appeal No. 2004-0996                                                        
          Application No. 09/520,947                                                  

          discussion above regarding the function of the inner wrap and               
          outer bag as taught by Morris.1                                             
             For the foregoing reasons and those stated in the Brief and              
          Reply Brief, we determine that the examiner has not established a           
          prima facie case of obviousness in view of the reference evidence.          
          Accordingly, we do not sustain any of the rejections on appeal.             

















               1The examiner has applied Collins and Blum to establish the            
          obviousness of limitations recited in several dependent claims              
          (Paper No. 8, page 5).  Accordingly, we determine that Collins              
          and Blum do not remedy the deficiencies in the examiner’s                   
          rejections as noted above.                                                  
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