Appeal No. 96-0987
Application No. 08/226,467
consistent with appellants' originally filed disclosure in the
paragraph spanning pages 5 and 6 thereof.
With this as background, we first address the
examiner's rejection of claims 8 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Desbiolles in view of Fenton and Molitor.
In view of the fact that the patent to Fenton discloses an iron-
type golf club head comprising a hollow metal body incorporating
an internal cavity 17 and including an impact wall 21 (Figure 3)
as claimed, with the impact wall having an internal surface
coated with a thin layer 23 of a viscoelastic resin having
damping properties (note column 2, lines 30-39) and which layer
only partially fills the internal cavity, the only issue to be
resolved is whether or not the disclosed viscoelastic resin is
capable of being molded by a reaction injection molding (RIM)
process or that it would have been obvious to form the
viscoelastic resin of a suitable resin usable in a RIM process.
It is known that reaction injection molding normally is
"utilized for the production of partially foamed polyurethane
moldings by rapid injection of metered liquid streams of polyol
and isocyanate into a mold," which is consistent with2
KIRK-OTHMER Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Third2
Edition, Volume 18, 1982, page 203.
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