Appeal No. 2002-1031
Application 09/129,883
VR of 1.014, that the Type II dimple pattern of Yamagishi ‘563
has a VR of 0.996, and that the Type III dimple pattern of
Yamagishi ‘563 has a VR of 0.670.
The Examiner’s Rationale in Rejecting the Appealed Claims
Looking first at the standing rejection of independent claim
4 as being unpatentable over Yamagishi ‘413 in view of Yamagishi
‘563, the examiner finds (answer, page 4) that Yamagishi ‘413
discloses a golf ball comprising a core having a distortion of
3.5 mm under an applied load of 100 kg., an outer cover layer
having a Shore D hardness in the range of 50-60, and an inner
cover layer having a Shore D hardness in the range of 28-68. The
examiner also finds that in Yamagishi ‘413 “[the] products of the
Shore D hardness of an inner cover layer multiplied by the Shore
D hardness of an outer cover layer . . . would be in a range of
1500-4000 (Fig. 2)” (answer, page 4)3. The examiner acknowledges
that Yamagishi ‘413 does not teach the relationship between
product of hardnesses and VR called for by claim 4. The examiner
2(...continued)
paper. For the reader’s convenience, a copy of that Table is
included as an attachment to this decision.
3It is not immediately clear where Yamagishi ‘413 discloses
Shore D hardness values for the inner and outer cover layers that
would necessarily yield a product within the range of 1500-4000
as found by the examiner.
7
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007