Appeal No. 2004-2234
Application No. 09/881,361
provide the head with a desired weight” (specification, page 1).
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A golf club comprising:
a head having a heel end, a toe end, and a ball-striking
face, wherein the heel end includes a hosel that defines a
generally cylindrical cavity;
a hosel plug sized to fit into a lower end of the hosel
cavity; and
a shaft having a lower end sized to fit into, and be
secured to, the hosel cavity, at a location above the hosel plug;
wherein the hosel plug comprises a mixture of a metallic
powder and a compliant polymeric material, in prescribed relative
proportions, and wherein the hosel plug is sized to fit snugly
into the lower end of the hosel cavity, where it is secured in
place by compression of its compliant polymeric material.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Kochevar 4,220,336 Sep. 2, 1980
Yoneyama 4,667,963 May 26, 1987
Sasamoto et al. (Sasamoto) 5,348,302 Sep. 20, 1994
Bingman 5,452,890 Sep. 26, 1995
Allen 5,888,148 Mar. 30, 1999
Shimazaki, 9-248355 Sep. 22, 1997
Japanese Patent Document
Tarlow et al., (Tarlow) WO 00/62873 Oct. 26, 2000
International Patent Document
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17 and 18 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Shimazaki in
view of Kochevar and Tarlow.
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