Appeal No. 2005-1335 Page 2
Application No. 10/128,266
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Schaper et al. 5,674,149 Oct. 07, 1997
(Schaper)
Schwaner 5,709,623 Jan. 20, 1998
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 through 45 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Schaper in view of Schwaner.
Attention is directed to the main brief filed June 16, 2004
and the reply brief filed November 18, 2004 and to the Office
action mailed November 4, 2003 and the answer mailed September
21, 2004 for the respective positions of the appellant and the
examiner regarding the merits of this rejection.
DISCUSSION
Schaper, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
inflatable game ball, e.g., a soccer ball, constructed of a
plurality of hexagonal and pentagonal panels stitched together
along adjacent edges and dimensioned so as to be subject to
essentially equal material stresses and degrees of stretch when
the ball is inflated. Schaper describes the ball as follows:
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