Appeal No. 2003-0584
Application No. 09/845,280
a surface of the head in a common plane with the longitudinal
axis of the shaft and parallel to the striking face of the head.
Independent claim 1 is representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of that claim, as reproduced from the Appendix
to appellant's brief, is attached to this decision.
The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Reach 1,433,150 Oct. 22, 1922
Seisaku1 5-329233 Dec. 14, 1993
Claims 1 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Reach in view of Seisaku.
Rather than attempt to reiterate the examiner's full
commentary with regard to the above-noted rejection and the
conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and appellant
1 Both the examiner and appellant refer to this reference as
"Seisaku" and for the sake of clarity we will do so in our
discussions below, although we note that the named inventor is
Shoichi Tateishi. In addition, we note that our understanding of
this foreign language document is based on a translation prepared
for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of that
translation is attached to this decision.
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