Appeal No. 2005-2393
Application No. 10/228,392
APPEALED SUBJECT MATTER
The subject matter on appeal relates to a golf club shaft
set with shafts defining upper (butt) ends and metal tip ends
wherein the lengths of the metal tip ends are inversely
proportional to the overall lengths of the shafts. See the
specification, page 1. Claims 1, 10, 19 and 20 are
representative of the appealed subject matter2 and read as
2 The appellants state at page 7 of the Brief that:
Claims 4, 6 and 7 depend from claim 1 and stand or
fall with claim 1.
Claims 13, 15 and 16 depend from claim 10 and
stand or fall with claim 10.
Claim 20 depends from claim 19 and stands or falls
with claim 19.
Consistent with this statement, the appellants do not provide any
substantive arguments for the separate patentability of claims 4,
6, 7, 13, 15, 16 and 20. See the Brief and the Reply Brief in
their entirety. Claim 20, however, is subject to a different
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