Appeal Number: 2006-3291
Application Number: 10/178,845
user’s sacrum7 below the belt (Br. 11-12), and that Davis has no showing of
concavity dimensions of about 10 inches high or 4 inches deep (Br. 14).
FACTS PERTINENT TO THE ISSUES
Claim 1 is directed to a seat device. Therefore, it is defined by its structure.
The structural elements of claim 1 include:
• A bottom edge portion.
• An upper portion having a substantial thickness. This portion is intended for
the upper back and therefore must be capable of touching the upper back.
• A portion between the bottom edge portion and the upper portion having a
thickness less than the thickness of the upper portion
• The lower portion must be structurally positioned to create a concavity so
that no portion of the concavity between the upper back portion and the
bottom edge portion presses against a part of a user below a duty belt when
the user is wearing the duty belt and sitting against the seat accessory in a
normal seating position.
A concavity is a concave line, surface or hollow (Merriam Webster).
The structure of the lower portion is defined relative to where a user positions a
belt, in particular, where the lower edge of the belt is on the user’s back, when the
user sits against the claimed seat device in a normal seating position.
7 The triangular segment of the spinal column that forms part of the pelvis and
closes in the pelvic girdle posteriorly, is formed between the ages of 16 and 25 by
the fusion of five originally separate sacral vertebrae, and articulates with the last
lumbar vertebra, the coccyx, and the hipbone on either side. (Stedman’s Medical)
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