Appeal No. 2004-0049 Page 2
Application No. 10/047,626
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to improved golf balls comprising multi-layer
covers which have a hard inner layer and a relatively soft outer layer (specification, p.
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the appellant's
brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Nesbitt 4,431,193 Feb. 14, 1984
Isaac 5,000,459 Mar. 19, 1991
Horiuchi et al. (Horiuchi) 5,222,739 June 29, 1993
Claims 14 to 17, 19 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Nesbitt in view of Horiuchi and the appellant's disclosure.
Claim 18 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Nesbitt in view of Horiuchi, the appellant's disclosure and Isaac.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 14, mailed July 2, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of
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