Appeal No. 2003-1552
Serial No. 10/116,937
THE INVENTION
The appellant claims a fishing lure having air bubbles
encapsulated in a solid plastic body. Claims 21 and 27 are
illustrative:
21. A fishing lure body consisting essentially of soft,
flexible, solid plastic having a plurality of air bubbles
encapsulated therewithin, said encapsulated air bubbles occurring
only at preselected locations that are spaced along a preselected
length of said solid plastic body, and said solid plastic body
being devoid of air bubbles except at said preselected spaced
locations.
27. A fishing lure comprising a soft, flexible body of only
solid plastic, a plurality of air bubbles encapsulated entirely
within said solid plastic body, said air bubbles being
encapsulated within said solid plastic body only at predetermined
locations that are spaced along a longitudinal axis of said solid
plastic body, and said solid plastic body being devoid of any
randomly dispersed encapsulated air bubbles.
THE REFERENCES
Lindgard 4,732,766 Mar. 22, 1988
Kato 5,667,739 Sep. 16, 1997
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
follows: claims 21, 24, 25, 27, 30 and 31 over Kato, and
claims 27-31 over Lindgard.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 21 and 27.
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