Appeal No. 98-1458 Page 21
Application No. 08/499,211
extending out of the nailhem plane, a joining rib wall
extending from the first rib wall to a second rib wall, and
the second rib wall extending back toward the nailhem plane,
the originally filed drawings fail to disclose that the second
rib wall terminates at the nailhem plane.
2. Claims 1 through 10 and 17 through 25 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over 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) in view
of Godes.
As set forth in the specification and drawings, the
admitted prior art teaches the claimed subject matter except
for the claimed elongate rib.
In applying the above-noted test for obviousness, we
reach the conclusion that it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to have provided the siding panels of the admitted prior art
with ridges as suggested and taught by Godes' ridges 30 and 34
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