Appeal No. 2001-2609 Page 2
Application No. 09/040,798
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to golf balls which contain a
fast-chemical-reaction-produced component, such as a core and/or cover layer
(specification, p. 1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to
the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Molitor et al. (Molitor) 4,762,322 Aug. 9, 1988
Melvin et al. (Melvin) 5,779,562 July 14, 1998
Cavallaro et al. (Cavallaro) 5,813,923 Sep. 29, 1998
Claims 1 to 44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
either Melvin or Cavallaro in view of Molitor.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the answer
(Paper No. 15, mailed February 9, 2001) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 14, filed October 18, 2000) and
reply brief (Paper No. 16, filed March 29, 2001) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
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