Appeal No. 2002-1071 Page 2
Application No. 09/369,312
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to an anisotropic golf club shaft (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:
Yamamoto et al. (Yamamoto) 5,326,099 July 5, 1994
Kawamatsu 5,421,573 June 6, 1995
Nishihara 5,897,447 April 27, 1999
Claims 1 to 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kawamatsu in view of Yamamoto and Nishihara.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the final
rejection (Paper No. 7, mailed May 23, 2001) and the answer (Paper No. 14, mailed
March 8, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and to
the brief (Paper No. 13, filed January 8, 2002) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
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