Appeal No. 1999-1978 Page 2
Application No. 08/864,442
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a weighted practice
bat. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix to
the appellant's brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Hamilton 3,521,883 July 28,
1970
Worst 4,331,330 May 25,
1982
Dirksing et al. 4,819,935 Apr. 11,
1989
Claims 1, 5 and 9 through 11 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hamilton in view of
Worst.
Claims 3 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Hamilton in view of Worst as applied
to claim 1 above, and further in view of Dirksing.
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