Ex parte BRANDNER et al. - Page 6




                 Appeal No. 1996-2218                                                                                                                   
                 Application No. 08/154,422                                                                                                             

                 column 5, lines 23-24 and Figure 2.  Thereafter “the edge gap                                                                          
                 sealing profile member 4 is always fixed by pushing onto the                                                                           
                 plastics frame 8.”  See column 6, lines 27-30.  There is no                                                                            
                 teaching in Bohm of using the edge gap sealing profile member                                                                          
                 as an integral part of the mold prior to the molding                                                                                   
                 operation.                                                                                                                             
                 Moreover, the claimed subject matter requires a                                                                                        
                 “resiliently deformable peripheral seal”  and one wherein the           2                                                              
                 molding operation includes “surrounding an inwardly directed                                                                           
                 part of the peripheral seal with said plastic material.”                                                                               
                 Accordingly, the secondary references relied upon by the                                                                               
                 examiner would need to teach those elements of the process                                                                             
                 required by the claimed subject matter and not taught by Bohm.                                                                         
                 They do not.                                                                                                                           
                 The reference to Knights is directed to a framed window                                                                                
                 panel.  We find a glazed sheet of material 12 is inserted                                                                              
                 between two parallel flanges 10 and 11 of an aluminum bar 7.                                                                           
                 We find that sealing material is thereafter injected into the                                                                          


                          2Resilient is defined as, “capable of withstanding shock                                                                      
                 without permanent deformation of rupture.”  Webster’s Ninth                                                                            
                 Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam Webster Inc., Springfield, MA.,                                                                         
                 Page 1003, 1986.                                                                                                                       
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