Appeal No. 98-2771
Application 08/428,863
5, lines 8-10. Given the similarity in the use and operation
of the exercise boards and platforms thereof in Gvoich,
Mansfield and Marcolin, we are of the opinion that it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the
time of appellant’s invention to make the flexible, resilient
platform (22) of Gvoich out of fiberglass-reinforced plastic
material as taught in either Mansfield or Marcolin, so as to
gain the advantages of strength and enhanced elastic
flexibility mentioned in Marcolin.
Claims 15 and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Gvoich in view of Mansfield or
Marcolin as applied to claim 14 above, and further in view of
Oaks and Morozov. Mansfield, Oaks and Morozov each disclose
an exercise board wherein the platform is provided with a
resilient pad on the upper side thereof so as to assist in
relieving the impact of the user’s feet on the otherwise hard
surface of the relatively rigid platform and in providing the
upper surface of the platform with a degree of frictional
resistance. Note particularly, Oaks, column 3, lines 22-35,
and Mansfield, column 2, lines 60-62. Thus, viewing the
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