Appeal No. 2006-0241
Application No. 10/208,870
lines 9-17). The polymeric material is a UV resin primer having thereon a UV curable
acrylate top coat (col. 4, lines 56-66). The UV curable acrylates can have any color or
degree of gloss (col. 5, lines 2-4).
Bradstreet discloses golf clubs having, on the face of an iron or putter, or the heel
and sole plates of a wood, a flame sprayed coating of a non-brittle oxide ceramic material
to provide a
long lasting finish (col. 1, lines 39-41; col. 2, lines 9-16
and 22-24; col. 4, lines 6-8). When the ceramic material is crypto crystalline titanium oxide
the coating is almost black, and when the coating material is alumina the coating is white
(col. 2, lines 9-14; col. 3, lines 9-10).
Molitor discloses a golf club wood having a head comprised of a lamination of layers
with different characteristics such that the head has high impact resistance, dimensional
stability, high durability, structural integrity and the same density as a persimmon wood
head (abstract; col. 1, lines 29-37). The layers may be of different colors and, for
decorative effect, may be pigmented with flaky pigments that can be metallic flakes which
generally are oriented parallel to the surface and provide a reflective three-dimensional
effect (col. 1, lines 58-59; col. 5, line 64 - col. 6, line 6).
The examiner argues that “it would have been obvious in view of Leon to one
having ordinary skill in the art to fabricate the golf club with any multi-layer coating to
achieve any desirable surface finish including transparent multi-layer coating” (answer,
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