Appeal No. 2006-1562
Application No. 10/720,948
adhesive coating or layer for positioning said piece of material
on a portion of an individual’s face so that the said piece of
material interferes with said individual’s ability to look at
said sporting object while attempting to control said sporting
object due to said thickness.”
Claim 10 requires a system for training an individual
comprising “a pair of potentially disposable view restricting
members; each said member being adhesively applied to one of the
cheeks under an eye of said individual; and each said member
having a thickness sufficient to interfere with said
individual’s vision if said individual attempts to look down and
sufficient to encourage said individual to look in an up and
forward direction towards a field of play and at least one
player on said field of play.”
Claim 1 appears to be satisfied by the eye patch disclosed
in U.S. Patent 4,951,658 to Morgan. Morgan’s eye patch is an
occlusive, opaque patch that forces a patient to use his weak or
lazy eye. (Column 1, lines 8-10, column 4, lines 14-16). The
patch is placed over the good eye to completely block the vision
of the user in that eye. (Column 1, lines 8-10, 57-60).
Because the patch is “occlusive” and “opaque” and is meant to
block the vision of the user, the patch necessarily must have a
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