Appeal No. 1999-0611 Page 9
Application No. 08/814,272
comprises a D-shaped male joint member (104) attached at the
top edge thereof which engages a female joint member (58)
disposed at the bottom of the adjacent panel. As best seen in
Figure 2, when the overhead door is in the closed position,
with adjacent panels lying in the same plane, the skin (54) of
an upper panel has a bottom portion which overlaps the joint
member (104) of the next adjacent panel.
For the above reasons, we shall also sustain the
examiner's rejection of claim 7, and claims 8, 9, 20 to 22 and
27 which stand or fall therewith, under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Lewis.
With regard to rejection 6, the appellant states on page
5 of the brief that claims 4 and 17 stand or fall together and
claims 11, 13, 24, 26 and 29 stand or fall together.
Therefore, and in accordance with 37 CFR § 1.192(c)(7), we
have selected claims 17 and 13 as the representative claims to
decide the appeal of this rejection as to these two groups of
claims.
The appellant argues that Lewis does not disclose a top
frame member having a lower edge with an arched configuration
(page 9). The examiner asserts that the provision of arches
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