Appeal No. 1999-0704 Page 3
Application No. 08/558,661
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an intra-line fishing rod provided with annular
fishline guides or a spiral fishline guide within a rod tube to form an improved inner surface
which reduces interior frictional resistance on the fishline (specification, page 1). An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 25,
which appear in the appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Kelly 249,360 Aug. 15, 1963
(Australian patent specification)
Harada 5-88259 Dec. 3, 19932
(Japanese published unexamined utility patent application)
The following rejections are before us for review.
(1) Claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-16, 23 and 25-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kelly.
(2) Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kelly, as
applied to claim 1 above, in further view of Harada.
2An English language translation of this reference, prepared by the Patent and Trademark Office, is
appended hereto.
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