Appeal No. 97-3003
Application 08/390,403
rejection.
The invention relates to “golf clubs, and more
particularly to putters with adjustable putter heads”
(specification, page 1). A copy of the appealed claims
appears in the appendix to the appellant’s main brief (Paper
No. 11).
The items relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Guier 3,191,936 Jun. 29, 1965
Grant 4,736,951 Apr. 12, 1988
Cannan 4,856,782 Aug. 15, 1989
Claims 2, 4, 11 an 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Grant in view of Cannan, and
claim 10 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Grant in view of Cannan and Guier.
Reference is made to the appellant’s main and reply
briefs (Paper Nos. 11 and 13) and to the examiner’s answer
(Paper No. 12) for the respective positions of the appellant
and the examiner with regard to the merits of these
rejections.
Grant, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses a golf
club comprising a club head 12, a shaft 14 and a pivotal
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