Appeal No. 2004-0184
Application No. 09/837,824
said body exhibiting a smooth and continuous exterior
surface and further defining a hollowed and interior cavity
suspended within said body, said body further including
substantially elliptical and interiorly extending surfaces
defining said interior cavity;
wherein, upon a user launching said article in a
substantially horizontal trajectory and with a specified
rotational spin, said interior cavity causing centrifugal forces
to be applied to said outer perimeter of said article and said
elliptically extending faces increasing individual incidences of
said article contacting a water surface.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Hand 3,544,113 Dec. 1, 1970
Glovak et al. (Glovak) 4,151,997 May 1, 1979
THE REJECTIONS
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Hand.
Claims 3, 5 through 8 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Hand.
Claims 2 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Hand in view of Glovak.
Attention is directed to the main and reply briefs (Paper
Nos. 7 and 10) and the answer (Paper No. 8) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner regarding the merits
of these rejections.
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