Appeal No. 1998-3371
Application 08/614,383
This is an appeal from the decision of the examiner
finally rejecting claims 1-9, which constitute all of the
claims of record in the application.
The appellants’ invention is directed to an improved
tennis ball (claims 1-7) and to a method of decreasing the
deformation and increasing the rebound of a tennis ball
(claims 8 and 9). The claims on appeal have been reproduced
in an appendix to the Brief.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the examiner to
support the final rejection are:
Wood 1,991,534 Feb. 19, 1935
Hazelton et al. (Hazelton) 4,978,717 Dec. 18, 1990
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Wood in view of Hazelton.
The rejection is explained in the Examiner’s Answer.
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