Appeal No. 2000-2054 Page 5
Application No. 08/661,593
1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir. 1988) and In re Lintner, 458 F.2d 1013,
1016, 173 USPQ 560, 562 (CCPA 1972).
Claim 1 reads as follows:
An improved game racquet of a composite material
comprising a frame, a triangular throat portion and a
plurality of reinforcing pieces; wherein said frame is
made of a tubular member of a predetermined length by a
filament winding method, with said tubular member having
the shape of a game racquet frame by bending, said
tubular member comprising a plurality of helically-wound
filaments and resin; wherein said triangular throat
portion is made of a foam material wrapped with resin
prepreg tape; wherein said reinforcing pieces have a
predetermined size and a predetermined angle and are made
of resin prepreg tape, said reinforcing pieces being used
to reinforce a plurality of structurally deficient areas
of said frame and said triangular throat portion; and
wherein said frame formed by filament winding reinforced
by said reinforcing pieces and said triangular throat
portion reinforced by said reinforcing pieces are
arranged in a molding tool in which an improved game
racquet frame of a composite material is formed under
heat and pressure.
In the rejection before us in this appeal, the examiner
determined (final rejection, p. 2) that (1) Viellard discloses
that it is known to make racket frames with a filament winding
process, (2) Cecka discloses that it is known in the art to
provide reinforcements on the throat portion of a racket, and
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