Appeal No. 2005-1953 Page 2
Application No. 09/765,533
BACKGROUND
The present invention relates to a mat comprising a symmetrical body
placement guide on the upper surface. According to Appellant, “[t]he present
invention resides in a yoga mat which allows a practitioner to properly align his or her
body in a variety of poses as well as tracking his or her flexibility progress. The yoga
mat generally comprises an elongated mat having an upper and a lower surface. In a
particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the elongated mat has a
rectangular configuration. A symmetrical body placement guide is imprinted on the
upper surface of the mat and configured to aid the yoga practitioner to properly align
the practitioner's body during yoga postures.” (Brief, p. 4). Appeal claim 1 is
reproduced below:
1. A yoga mat, comprising:
an elongated mat having an upper surface and a lower surface; and
a symmetrical body placement guide on the upper surface of the mat
and configured to aid a yoga practitioner to properly align the
practitioner's body during yoga postures, the body placement guide
including:
a patterned design defining a longitudinal axis substantially extending
the length of and bisecting the upper surface, the patterned design
further defining a transverse axis bisecting the longitudinal axis, and
indicia positioned from the longitudinal axis at a forty-five degree angle;
and
four equal quadrants defined by the longitudinal axis and the transverse
axis, each quadrant being adjacent to two other quadrants, the patterned
design in each quadrant being a mirror image of the patterned design of
the two adjoining quadrants.
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