Appeal No. 2000-2040 Page 2
Application No. 09/027,867
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a golf shoe cleat. A
copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellant's brief.
The applied prior art references of record relied upon by
the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Jordan et al. (Jordan) 4,014,114 Mar. 29, 1977
Johnson 4,327,503 May 4, 1982
Dassler 4,375,728 Mar. 8, 1983
Kelly 5,321,901 June 21, 1994
Kataoka et al. (Kataoka) 5,581,913 Dec. 10, 1996
Softspikes advertisement, "A Unique Holiday Offer," Golf Digest,
page 149, December 1996 (Softspikes)
Claims 1, 15 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Softspikes in view of Dassler.
Claims 2, 5 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Softspikes in view of Dassler and Kelly
or Jordan.
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