Appeal No. 2004-2330 Page 2
Application No. 09/986,977
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a fishing reel having a reel body coated on an
obverse-layer side with a ground film-layer formed by a paint coat and a metal film
providing a mirroring effect formed semi-transparently on an obverse-layer side of the
ground film-layer. A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the appendix to the
appellant's brief.
The examiner relied upon the following prior art references of record in rejecting
the appealed claims:
Manabe et al. (Manabe) 4,369,225 Jan. 18, 1983
Mamoru 11-206284 Aug. 3, 1999
(Japanese patent document)
Kazuya 2001-17040 Jan. 23, 20011
(Japanese patent document)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 15 and 17-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kazuya in view of Manabe.
Claims 15 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Mamoru in view of Manabe.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the answer
1 We derive our understanding of the Mamoru and Kazuya references from the computer
translations obtained by the USPTO, copies of which are appended hereto. While these translations are
ostensibly imprecise and incomplete, we note that they constitute the evidence presented to this panel by
the primary examiner and thus decide this appeal on the basis thereof.
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