Appeal No. 2003-1937
Application No. 09/522,296
Publication No. 5-96013, for consideration of the club head
structures therein vis-a-vis that defined in appellants' claim 1
on appeal. The examiner should consider whether one of ordinary
skill in the art would understand the integral molding of the
hollow metal shell structures mentioned in these two references
to connote "casting" and, if not, to determine if forming such
hollow shell structures by casting would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants'
invention.
As a further point, we direct the examiner's attention to
the applied Drajan patent, with particular reference to a
properly construed claim 28 on appeal, which claim is readable on
the embodiment of appellants' invention seen in Figures 8-12 of
the application, and appears to be readable on the golf club head
seen in Figure 1 of Drajan.
Our final issue for the examiner to consider on REMAND is
whether a rejection of claims 28 and 29 should be entered under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as being indefinite. In that
regard, we note that we find no proper antecedent basis in claim
28 for the reference in line 3 of the claim to "a top portion."
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