Appeal No. 1999-2737
Application No. 08/438,767
[w]hen the Quad Taper racquet was 2
designed, it was not obvious to me or to my
co-workers at Wilson that increased
resistance to torsion could be obtained by
significantly decreasing the height of
Section 4-4 and increasing the width so
that the ratio of width to length was at
least 0.5.
We turn now to independent claims 1 and 16.
Independent claim 1 is drawn to a tennis racket
comprising, inter alia, a frame, a shaft including a pair of
diverging arms, and a head including a yoke portion, wherein
the length and width of the cross-section of an upper portion
of the head is at a maximum adjacent the merger between the
yoke portion and the arms and decreases toward the top of the
frame, the dimension of the maximum width being at least 0.620
inch.
Independent claim 16 sets forth a tennis racket
comprising, inter alia, a frame, a shaft including a pair of
2In section 2. of the declaration, it is pointed out that
the Quad Taper racquet is made generally in accordance with
the Garrett patent, the reference relied upon by the examiner.
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