Appeal No. 2001-2382 Page 11
Application No. 09/376,461
Additionally with regard to claim 6, which does not require that the flashing be
seamless, even if it were considered that DeBlock, Hoy and Streiter would have
suggested the metal flashing and metal skirt, the disqualification of Blackmon as a
reference leaves the rejection absent any teaching that would have suggested providing
the skirt with a reinforcing anomaly, and therefore a prima facie case of obviousness
has not been established.
SUMMARY
None of the rejections are sustained.
The decision of the examiner is reversed..
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