Appeal No. 1997-0449
Application 08/380,244
directed to the composition roofing shingle disclosed in this
application. In Appeal No. 94-1620 in Application 07/859,240,
the parent of the present application, we affirmed rejections
of all the claims then pending under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph, and 35 U.S.C. § 103. Appellants elected to
continue prosecution by way of this continuation application,
wherein the claims of the parent ‘240 application have been
amended, new claims have been added, and evidence of
nonobviousness in the form of declarations by co-inventor
Robert L. Jenkins have been submitted.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a composition roofing
shingle which includes a shingle body having a layer of
elongated release material affixed to an exposed face thereof.
The release material further bears planographic indicia
thereon for identifying the shingle as to at least one
parameter of its manufacture. Claim 1, the sole independent
claim on appeal, is illustrative of the appealed subject
matter and reads as follows:
1. A composition roofing shingle comprising an elongated
shingle body having an exposed face, and a separate layer of
elongated release material affixed to said exposed face
throughout the extent of the shingle body, said release
2
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