Appeal No. 1999-1979
Application No. 08/758,788
materials having varying hardness or pads constructed from a
group of materials having different weights or textures
(brief, pages 8 and 9).
Claim 26 does call for “a plurality of ball striking
inserts,” but does not require that the inserts be constructed
from different materials or have different hardness, weight or
texture as appellant seems to suggest. Rather, claim 26
requires
that each insert be “fabricated from a material selected from
the group consisting of titanium, graphite, PTFE, copper,
brass, nylon, resinous plastic material, polycarbonate resin,
aluminum and steel.”
Fisher teaches a set of golf putter inserts with each
insert being constructed of polyurethane, a resinous plastic
material,
and having the same hardness and a different rebound factor.
Thus, the limitation of claim 26 that each insert is
“fabricated from a material selected from the group consisting
of titanium, graphite, PTFE, copper, brass, nylon, resinous
plastic material, polycarbonate resin, aluminum and steel” can
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