Appeal No. 2001-1450
Application 08/477,640
(i.e., degree of concavity) is determined with respect to the
intended wearer’s foot sole location, and 2) “an outer concavely
rounded surface [31], extending through a lowermost portion of
the shoe sole as viewed in a frontal plane, when the shoe is
upright and not under a bodyweight load,” and wherein the
concavity is determined with respect to the intended wearer’s
foot sole location. In addition, the shoe sole includes at least
one concavely rounded portion (28a) contoured like the natural
form on the side or edge of the human foot and oriented around at
least one of the parts of the wearer’s foot listed in the
penultimate clause of claim 22 and in lines 15-18 of claim 63.
As has been made clear in the present specification, the
shoe sole of the invention described therein as being “fully
contoured” is comprised of two parts -- a concavely rounded
portion (28b) located directly beneath an intended wearer’s foot
sole location and defined by an inner concavely rounded surface
(30b) near the intended wearer’s foot sole location and an outer
concavely rounded surface (31b) extending through a lowermost
portion of the shoe sole as viewed in a frontal plane and from
the perspective of the intended wearer’s foot, and another
concavely rounded surface portion (28a) at each outboard side of
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