Appeal No. 1999-1986
Application 08/677,776
Appellants’ invention pertains to a street hockey puck
and to a method of manufacturing a hockey puck resistant to
rising from a face to its edge upon interaction with playing
surface irregularities. An understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 21 and 37, a
copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the brief (Paper No.
25).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
Bigornia et al. (Bigornia) 5,284,343 Feb. 8, 1994
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 21 through 27 and 29 through 37 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Bigornia.
The full text of the examiner's rejection and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer
(Paper No. 26), while the complete statement of appellants’
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