Appeal No. 2003-1937
Application No. 09/522,296
further consideration by the examiner as being directed to a non-
elected invention.
As set forth on page 1 of the specification, appellants'
invention is directed to a golf club head of the "metal wood"
type having a structure wherein the strength of a shaft securing
portion for securing a shaft to the body of the club head is
increased and the balance of weight is improved and a
manufacturing method therefor. Consentient with a restriction
requirement issued by the examiner in a paper mailed July 5, 2001
(Paper No. 3), appellants have elected claims directed to the
golf club head for prosecution in this application. Independent
claims 1 and 28 are representative of the subject matter on
appeal and a copy of those claims can be found in the Appendix to
appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Mills 3,819,181 Jun. 25, 1974
Motomiya 4,438,931 Mar. 27, 1984
Helmstetter 5,042,806 Aug. 27, 1991
Endo et al. 5,556,097 Sep. 17, 1996
(Endo)
Take et al. 5,575,723 Nov. 19, 1996
(Take)
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