Appeal No. 97-0754 Page 3
Application No. 08/408,478
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a separable golf club
shaft. Claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on appeal
and a copy of claim 1, as it appears in the appendix to the
appellant's brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Steffes 3,334,901 Aug. 8, 1967
Pelz 5,039,098 Aug. 13, 1991
References made of record by this panel of the Board are:
Murphy 4,253,666 March 3, 1981
Dopkowski 4,340,227 July 20, 1982
Palmer et al. (Palmer) 4,664,382 May 12, 1987
Claims 1, 2, 12 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Pelz.
Claims 14 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Pelz in view of Steffes.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellant regarding the above-noted
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