Appeal No. 2004-1322
Application No. 10/014,297
21. An apparatus comprising:
a ball having a surface and at least one internal cavity;
at least one timer for measuring at least one predetermined
time period; and
the timer integrated with the ball.
The references set forth below are relied upon by the Examiner
as evidence of obviousness:
Bennett 5,468,000 Nov. 21, 1995
Willner et al. (Willner) 5,810,685 Sep. 22, 1998
Maurer 5,912,864 June 15, 1999
Claims 1-10 and 16-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Maurer in view of Willner, and claims
11-15 stand correspondingly rejected over these references and
further in view of Bennett.
We refer to the brief and to the answer for a complete
discussion of the contrary viewpoints expressed by the Appellants
and by the Examiner concerning the above noted rejections.
OPINION
For the reasons which follow, these rejections cannot be
sustained.
As correctly explained by the Appellants in their brief and
contrary to the Examiner’s viewpoint, the timing device associated
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