Appeal No. 1998-0490
Application 08/543,057
and the respective viewpoints of appellant and the examiner.
As a consequence of our review, we make the determinations
which follow.
The anticipation issue
We reverse the rejection of claims 1 and 14 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being clearly anticipated by Moll.
Appellant’s article claim 1 and method claim 14 each
respectively require creasing material of a sunshield from its
top edge to its bottom edge on the same or only one side of
the material, such that the sunshield is foldable accordion-
like. Read in light of appellant’s underlying disclosure, it
is quite apparent to us that the specified top and bottom
edges of the sunshield refer to the edges of the sunshield at
the outermost limit of its lateral extent (corresponding to
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