Appeal No. 2001-0030
Application No. 08/685,680
the core consists essentially of a vulcanized molded article of a
rubber composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a base rubber
containing not less than 80% by weight of a butadiene rubber having not
less than 80 molar by % of cis-1,4 bond, 10 to 30 parts by weight of
calcium carbonate, 18 to 35 parts by weight of zinc acrylate or
methacrylate and 0.5 to 2.5 parts by weight of a peroxide, and
the cover is made from a resin composition having a flexural
modulus of 1,400 to 3,800 kgf /cm2, wherein
the total volume of dimples of the cover is from 250 to 400 mm3.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Fujio et al. (Fujio) 4,169,599 Oct. 02, 1979
Kamata et al. (Kamata) 4,611,810 Sep. 16, 1986
Melvin et al. (Melvin) 4,679,795 Jul. 14, 1987
Molitor 4,726,590 Feb. 23, 1988
Yamada et al. (Yamada ‘038) 4,968,038 Nov. 06, 1990
Sullivan et al. (Sullivan ‘060) 5,116,060 May 26, 1992
Yamada et al. (Yamada ‘637) 5,127,655 Jul. 06, 1992
Sullivan (Sullivan ‘637) 5,387,637 Feb. 07, 1995
Claims 1-5 stand rejected under 35 U.S. C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
any one of Molitor, Kamata or Sullivan ‘637 in view of Yamada ‘038 or Yamada ‘655,
and claims 1-4 stand correspondingly rejected over Sullivan ‘060 in view of Yamada
‘038 or Yamada ‘655.1
We refer to the brief and to the answer for a complete exposition of the opposing
viewpoints expressed by the appellants and by the examiner concerning the above-
1 At least some of the appealed claims have been separately grouped and argued with respect to
the above-noted rejections, and therefore we have individually considered these separately grouped and
argued claims in our disposition of this appeal. See 37 CFR 1.192(c)(7)(8)(1998).
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