Appeal No. 2002-1031
Application 09/129,883
material having a Shore D hardness of 63, which hardnesses yields
a product of 2520. In addition, Table 2 shows that the cores of
Examples 3 and 4 have distortions under a load of 100 kg. of 3.77
to 3.76, respectively. The examiner should determine whether it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of appellants’ invention to provide the Examples 3 and 4
golf balls of Egashira with the Type II dimple pattern of
Yamagishi ‘563 (VR = 0.996), it being noted that this
modification would result in golf balls having parameters that
appear to satisfy all the requirements of claim 4, as well as
several claims that depend therefrom.
US Patent 5,702,311 to Higuchi et al. (Higuchi) (copy
attached) pertains to a multi-piece solid golf ball having an
innermost core 1, an intermediate layer 2, and a cover 3.
Higuchi states (col. 4, lines 32-37) that the ball include a
multiplicity of dimples that may be arranged in a number of ways.
As with Egashira, Higuchi discloses a number of examples for golf
balls in accordance with the invention thereof. Table 2 shows
that the intermediate layers 2 of Examples E1, E3 and E4 have a
Shore D hardness of 40 and that the covers 3 of E1, E3 and E4
have Shore D hardnesses of 65, 60 and 65, which hardnesses yield
products of hardnesses of 2600, 2400 and 2600, respectively. In
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