Appeal No. 2003-0584
Application No. 09/845,280
and having a flat striking face (14) thereon, and "an alignment
means [e.g., 15] extending along a surface of said club shaft and
said head in a plane perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of
said shaft and parallel to said striking face of said head." It
is the last clause of claim 1 that is of concern, in that we do
not see how an imaginary plane defined by and including the
alignment means on the shaft and head of the golf club can be
said to be "perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of said
shaft." In that regard, it is not clear to us how a plane can be
said to be perpendicular to an axis or line that lies in the
plane.
Looking at Figures 1 and 2 of the application drawings, we
observe that the imaginary plane defined by the alignment means
(15) on the shaft (11) and head (13), as viewed for example in
Figure 2, would include the longitudinal axis (12) of the shaft
and would be considered to be perpendicular to the plane of the
paper which also includes shaft axis (12), but that the imaginary
plane in question would not be considered to be perpendicular to
the line or axis (12).
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