Appeal No. 96-1633
Application 08/119,245
reasonably appear that Wohl’s sealing arrangement in its
final, installed form is quite similar to appellants’ sealing
arrangement in its final, installed form. However, as is made
clear by Wohl (see Figure 8), the mastic 70 is not pre-applied
to the resilient sealing member A prior to commencement of the
assembly process, but rather is applied with a mastic gun 90
having a nozzle 92 which forces the mastic body 70 against the
lower edge of the windowpane B (column 5, lines 33-35). This
is followed by installing the molding 40 to complete the frame
(see Figure 9), and finally by forcing the resilient sealing
member A into the space 48 between the molding 40 and the
windowpane B (see Figure 10) to form a completed joint. When
viewed in this sense, Wohl is relevant to appellants’ claimed
subject matter only in that the final product produced thereby
is similar to the final product produced by using appellants’
composite gasket. The examiner then looked to another
reference, Zahn, for its teaching a “[flowable] sealing
composition 30 which is pre-applied to the resilient member”
(answer, page 3), and in the case of the article claims, to
yet another reference, Bouchey, for its teaching “that it is
known to use a release substrate on a window seal” (answer,
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