Ex Parte Horwood et al - Page 3



          Appeal No. 2005-2393                                                         
          Application No. 10/228,392                                                   
          follows:                                                                     
                    1. A set of golf club shafts comprising:                           
                    a plurality of shafts progressively increasing in                  
               length, each of said shafts including:                                  
                         a composite butt section; and                                 
                         a metal tip section coupled to said butt section;             
                    wherein a length of each tip section progressively                 
               decreases as said plurality of shafts progressively increase            
               in length;                                                              
                    wherein a length of said tip section of a shortest one             
               of shafts is about 30 - 33 percent of an entire length                  
               of said shortest one of said shafts; and                                
                    wherein a length of said tip section of a longest one              
               of said shafts is about 17 -19 percent of an entire length              
               of said longest one of said shafts.                                     
                    10. A set of golf clubs comprising:                                
                    a plurality of club heads progressively decreasing in              
               loft; a plurality of shafts independently coupled to said               
                                                                                      
          ground of rejection than the rest of the claims on appeal.                   
          Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, we select claims 1, 10,              
          19 and 20 from all of the claims on appeal and determine the                 
          propriety of the examiner’s Section 103 rejections set forth in              
          the Answer based on these claims alone consistent with 37 CFR                
          § 41.37(c)(1)(vii) (2004).  In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379, 1384,             
          63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465-66 (Fed. Cir. 2002).                                    











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