Appeal No. 98-1458 Page 3
Application No. 08/499,211
BACKGROUND
The appellants' invention relates to building siding
panels. An understanding of the invention can be derived from
a reading of exemplary claim 1, which appears in the appendix
to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Godes 3,473,274 Oct. 21,
1969
Hinds et al. (Hinds) 3,593,479 July 20,
1971
King 5,363,623 Nov.
15, 1994
In addition, this panel of the Board will rely upon the
admitted prior art set forth in the specification and drawings
(see pages 3-5 of the specification and Figures 1-3 of the
drawings).
Claims 1 through 5, 11, 12, 14 and 17 through 19 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Godes.
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