Appeal No. 2000-0790
Application No. 08/992,637
matter on appeal as follows:1
1. An accessory for a golf club normally removably
mounted on a golf club shaft for use in green repair, cleat
cleaning, ball marking and as a general support comprising:
a substantially rectangularly elongated plate having a
front face and a back face, a top and a bottom, the bottom
being bifurcated, forming right and left legs and the top
defining a cradle; said plate having opposed jaws integrally
extending along a portion of the front face, along the
longitudinal axis of said plate, said jaws being mutually
spaced equidistantly along their length and dimensioned to be
press fitted on a golf club shaft and not the grip; said
plate, bifurcated bottom and cradle being contained in a
common plane; and
removable ball marker mounted on said plate adjacent said
jaws, said jaws comprising opposed clip members separated by a
constant distance along the longitudinal axis of said plate.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Notarmuzi 5,226,647 Jul.
13, 1993
Zink 5,437,449 Aug.
1, 1995
Claims 1 to 4 and 6 stand finally rejected under 35
U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as unpatentable over Notarmuzi in view of Zink.
1Claim 1 was amended following final rejection by an
amendment (filed Dec. 9, 1998) whose entry was approved in the
Advisory Action of Dec. 17, 1998 (Paper No. 8). We note that
claim 1 is correctly copied in Appendix 1 of the brief, but
incorrectly copied in the Supplemental Appendix 1 filed on
Aug. 22, 2000.
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