Appeal No. 1998-2204
Application No. 08/470,432
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to a fishing rod through which fishline is laid,
comprising a tubular member or rod pipe and a guide means or member attached to the tubular
member or rod pipe for introducing the fishline from outside the tubular member or rod pipe to
a hollow inner core thereof. The claims are particularly directed to the embodiment illustrated
in Figure 11. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 16 and 26, which appear in the appendix to the appellants' brief.1
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Viveiros 3,314,186 Apr. 18, 1967
Barnett 4,212,126 Jul. 15, 1980
Cranston 1,259,820 Jan. 12, 1972
(British patent specification)
Saita et al. (Saita) 1-178373 Dec. 20, 19892
(Japanese unexamined utility model application)
The copy of claim 16 in the appendix to the appellants' brief is an inaccurate reproduction of the claim of1
record, in that, in line 9, "mortise" should be "slot" (see Paper No. 4, page 2).
Our understanding of this reference is derived from the complete copy of the application and translation2
thereof submitted by the appellants with the brief (Paper No. 15). As indicated from the translation of the
abbreviated publication provided by the PTO (copy appended hereto), the date on which the Japanese application was
laid open appears to be December 20, 1989, not 1878 as indicated on page 1 of the appellants' translation.
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