Appeal No. 96-1823
Application No. 08/187,521
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a putter having
vibration damping material in the shaft. Claims 1 and 5 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal and a copy of
those claims, as they appear in the appendix to the examiner's
answer, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner as evidence of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 are:
Bills, Jr. 3,083,969 Apr. 2, 1963
(Bills)
Okumoto et al. 5,007,643 Apr. 16, 1991
(Okumoto)
Fry 2,200,560 Aug. 10, 1988
(United Kingdom)
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Bills in view of Fry and Okumoto.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellant regarding the § 103 rejection, we
make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 7, mailed
March 16, 1995) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
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