Appeal No. 2000-1315
Application 09/152,563
Famolare also teaches that the slide pad can be chosen
from a plurality of interchangeable slide pads to vary the
friction of the shoe sole (see column 2, lines 46 and 47), and
that the foregoing bowling shoe construction can be applied to
both shoes of a pair (see column 3, lines 53 through 56).
Famolare does not respond to the various limitations in
independent claims 1, 17 and 23 requiring a bowling shoe tip
adapted to cover and conform to at least a portion of the
adjacent shoe upper. In this regard, claim 1 recites a
“bowling shoe with a replaceable bowling shoe tip” comprising,
inter alia, a tip “covering and conforming to at least a
portion of a toe end
of the shoe upper,” claim 17 recites a “replaceable bowling
shoe tip for a bowling shoe” wherein the tip is “designed and
adapted to cover and conform to at least a portion of the
adjacent shoe upper,” and claim 23 recites a “method of
providing a selectable traction surface for a bowling shoe”
comprising, inter alia, the step of providing a plurality of
bowling shoe tips, each “designed and adapted to cover and
conform to at least a portion of the adjacent shoe upper.”
The appellant’s specification (see, for example, pages 1, 2, 6
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