Appeal No. 97-4004
Application 08/459,417
(1) a ball (i.e., cue ball), (2) the items which the cue ball
strikes during the course of play (i.e., other balls) and (3)
indicator markers associated with the playing area, so that they
will all glow in a darkened room when subjected to ultraviolet
light for the purposes of providing training and creating an
amusing effect.
Panosh teaches a table tennis apparatus wherein the ball,
the net, a part of the paddles and the peripheral edge portions
of the table (which define the playing area) are all provided
with a fluorescent material on the exterior surfaces thereof
(see, generally, column 1). Panosh also provides a source of
infrared or ultraviolet radiation so that, when subjected to the
ultraviolet radiation, the various fluorescent surfaces are
illuminated to the extent that “table tennis may be played in the
dark” (see column 1, lines 57-61), thereby providing a “novel
entertainment” (see column 1, line 12). Thus, at the broadest
level, Panosh teaches providing various parts of a sporting
apparatus with fluorescent exterior surfaces, including a ball
and markers defining the playing surface (the peripheral edges of
the table) so that they will glow in a darkened room when
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