Appeal No. 1998-0490
Application 08/543,057
the transverse dimension or height of a vehicle windshield).
In our opinion, the content of claims 1 and 14 is simply
not anticipated by the invention of Moll. Unlike the claimed
invention, Moll explicitly requires a quadrafoldable (Fig. 3c)
windshield sunshade (Figs. 1 and 2) having longitudinal
creases or folds on its interior surface (column 1, lines 57
through 61 and column 2, line 67 to column 3, line 1). In
fact, Moll expressly points out that the longitudinal folds
are not transverse accordion folds (column 3, lines 29 through
32). For these reasons, the anticipation rejection of
appellant’s claims is not sound, and must be reversed.
The obviousness issues
We reverse the rejection of claims 4, 9, and 10 under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Moll.
At the outset, we note that independent claim 9, akin to
claims 1 and 14 discussed above, requires a plurality of
creases defining sides of planar elements that extend from the
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