Appeal No. 1999-2186
Application No. 08/857,571
lead, charcoal, wax or chalk" (page 2). Lundy discloses a3
golf tee having a metal tip 1 and "a flexible body member 4,
preferably of rubber" (p. 1, lines 55 and 56), the purpose of
the flexible body being so that "the same will yield upon
being struck by the club, as shown in dotted lines in Figure
3" (p. 1, lines 101 to 103).
Ranseen discloses a conventional golf tee, usually made of
wood, having a collar or sleeve "preferably of flexible,
resilient rubber, demountably attached thereto," which
strengthens the shank of the tee and provides a buffer for the
head or seat of the ball (p. 1, lines 15 to 27).
In rejecting claim 1, the examiner found that it would
have been obvious, in view of Stewart, to provide Lundy’s
rubber- bodied tee with a writing point (rejection (1)), or,
in view of Ranseen, it would have been obvious to provide the
tee of Stewart with a rubber collar (rejection (5)). Although
neither Lundy nor Ranseen indicates that the disclosed rubber
performs any erasing function, or otherwise teaches or
discloses the inclusion of an eraser, the examiner takes the
3We assume that by "lead" Stewart means a pencil lead,
which is actually made of graphite.
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