Appeal No. 95-5059
Application 08/157,872
Using the language of claim 1 as a guide, Daimler Benz
discloses a vehicle body extension that is capable of being
mounted on the exterior surface of a vehicle in the region
surrounding a wheel opening. While Daimler Benz does not show a
wheel opening per se in the drawings, the shape of the body
extension (Figure 1) clearly indicates that it is complementary
to a wheel opening, and a wheel is shown in Figure 2. The
Daimler Benz unit is in the form of a contoured sheet-like body
having an inner edge (the lower right-hand edge of panel 11 in
Figure 2) which generally conforms to the shape of a wheel
opening (see Figure 1), and an outer edge (generally at the upper
15 in Figure 2) which is nonconforming to the shape of the wheel
opening and which is capable of fitting generally conformingly to
a vehicle fender. The contour of the body being exposed, when
mounted on a vehicle, reveals a protuberant region adjacent the
inner edge (the lowermost of the downwardly curved portion of
element 11 in Figure 2), a shoulder region extending from the
protuberant region toward the outer edge (the uppermost of the
downwardly curved portion of element 11), a reverse-turned region
between the shoulder and selected portions of the outer edge (the
upwardly curved corner portion immediately beneath the lead line
to the numeral 14 in Figure 2), and a nonprobuberant border
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