Appeal No. 1997-2252
Application No. 08/225,965 Page 4
and In re Lintner, 458 F.2d 1013, 1016, 173 USPQ 560, 562 (CCPA
1972).
The appellants argue (brief, pp. 4-7; reply brief, pp. 2-3)
that the applied prior art does not suggest the claimed subject
matter. We agree.
Claim 1 (the sole independent claim on appeal) recites a
method of forming a panel having an undercut edge comprising,
inter alia, the following seven steps: (1) providing a die pair,
one of said die pair having a cavity; (2) positioning a ring
including a cut out portion in said cavity; (3) loading a blank
into said cavity over said ring; (4) closing said die pair
together over said blank; (5) adding a substrate into said cavity
onto said blank; (6) molding said substrate and blank into a
panel; and (7) removing said panel from said cavity.
Spengler discloses a method of manufacturing trim panels
which are made of several trim components or trim materials, such
as door trim panels of automobiles. A vinyl cover film (12) is
formed, trim inserts (10, 11) are laminated onto the cover film
with the aid of a nesting die (8a, 8b), soft touch inserts (26)
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