Appeal 2006-3011
Application 10/123,110
paint, a coloring paint, an iridescent paint and a transparent colorless paint.
The iridescent paint comprises a resin, a colorant and an iridescent material,
such as flakes of aluminum, mica, and mica flakes coated with a titanium
oxide. According to Appellant's Specification, "[a]n object of the present
invention is therefore to provide a golf club head which is iridescent and will
be appreciated by many golfers as being more beautiful and high-quality
than those of the pearl paint coating or metallic pigmented paint coating"
(page 1 of Specification, penultimate paragraph).
Appealed claims 1-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over the admitted prior art in view of Bradstreet and
Molitor.
In view of the arguments set forth at pages 9-10 of Appellant's
principal Brief, the following groups of claims stand or fall together:
(a) claims 1 and 9;
(b) claims 2, 10 and 11;
(c) claims 3-5 and 12;
(d) claims 6 and 13;
(e) claims 7 and 8.
We have thoroughly reviewed each of Appellant's arguments for
patentability. However, we concur with the Examiner that the claimed
subject matter would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art
within the meaning of § 103 in view of the applied prior art. Accordingly,
we will sustain the Examiner's rejection.
The admitted prior art depicted in Figure 3 of Appellant's
Specification is a golf club head comprising a metal base and the presently
claimed coat of a priming paint, a metallic paint and a clear coat of a
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