Appeal No. 2003-0584
Application No. 09/845,280
thereby facilitates the squaring of the club face with an
intended line of play.
The examiner recognizes (answer, page 3) that Reach lacks a
sighting line which extends onto the surface of the shaft (b), as
required in claim 1 on appeal. To account for this difference
the examiner turns to Seisaku, indicating that this reference
shows that it is old in the golf club art to provide an alignment
means extending along and displayed on the shaft surface and
oriented parallel to the face of the putter, so as to facilitate
setting the face of the putter in perpendicular alignment with a
putting line to the hole or other target.
Based on the combined teachings of Reach and Seisaku, the
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellant's invention to
extend the sighting line (c) of Reach onto and along the shaft
(b) of the putter therein, with the motivation being to provide
an even longer sighting line than shown in Reach and thus enhance
the effect of the alignment means. We agree.
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