Appeal No. 96-0987
Application No. 08/226,467
8. Iron-type golf club head comprising a hollow metal
body incorporating an internal cavity delimited by a plurality of
walls, including an impact wall attached peripherally at all
points to other walls, wherein said impact wall has an internal
surface coated with a thin layer of a viscoelastic resin having
damping properties, said resin layer only partially filling said
internal cavity and having a specific gravity between 1 and 2,
said layer being adapted for molding under low pressure or by
gravity using a reaction injection molding process (RIM).
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Yoneyama 4,635,941 Jan. 13, 1987
Molitor et al. (Molitor) 4,762,322 Aug. 9, 1988
Fenton et al. (Fenton) 5,290,036 Mar. 1, 1994
Hutin et al. (Hutin) 5,316,298 May 31, 1994
(Filed Apr. 14, 1993)
Desbiolles et al. 2,238,251 May 29, 1991
(Desbiolles)(Great Britain)
Claims 8 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Desbiolles in view of Fenton and Molitor.
Claims 9, 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Desbiolles in view of Fenton,
Molitor and Hutin.
Claims 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Desbiolles in view of Fenton, Molitor
and Yoneyama.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of the
above rejections and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the
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