US 11,331,543 C1 (12,471st)
Alignment aid for golf club
Parker McLachlin, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by ShortGameChef, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to SHORTGAMECHEF, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Reexamination Request No. 90/015,215, Mar. 22, 2023.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 11,331,543, issued May 17, 2022, Appl. No. 17/243,693, Apr. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/031,908, filed on May 29, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/019,651, filed on May 4, 2020.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Dec. 18, 2023.
Int. Cl. A63B 69/36 (2006.01); A63B 53/04 (2015.01); A63B 53/02 (2015.01); A63B 60/52 (2015.01); A63B 71/06 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 69/3632 (2013.01) [A63B 53/02 (2013.01); A63B 53/0441 (2020.08); A63B 60/52 (2015.10); A63B 2071/0694 (2013.01); A63B 2214/00 (2020.08)]
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-4, 10, 13-15 and 17 is confirmed.
Claims 5-9, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 19 were not reexamined.
1. A golf club, comprising:
a club head;
a club face;
a hosel including a first end and a second end further from the club face than the first end;
a first marking on the hosel configured for use by a golfer in achieving a first alignment in which a first plane containing the first marking passes through a nose of the golfer, wherein the first marking extends between a first end and a second end further from the club face than the first end; and
a second marking on the hosel configured for use by the golfer in achieving a second alignment in which a second plane containing the second marking passes through the nose of the golfer, wherein the second alignment is different than the first alignment, wherein the second marking extends between a first end and a second end further from the club face than the first end, wherein a circumferential distance about the hosel between the first and second markings increases moving from the first ends of the first and second markings to the second ends of the first and second markings, and wherein the first and second markings are configured such that an effective loft angle between the club face and a ground surface is less in the second alignment than in the first alignment.