Appeal No. 2004-2038
Application No. 09/681,778
the circumstance that King indicates that slot 62 provides for
the thermal expansion and contraction of flange portion 28',
highlighted by appellants in their argument, does not detract
from our inherency assessment. We conclude by noting that the
matter of what the King reference suggests, as raised by
appellants, supra, is not relevant to the anticipation rejection
before us.
The Grace, Sr. patent rejection
We share the examiner’s view (answer, page 4) that claim 1
is anticipated by the siding panel (Fig. 1) of Grace, Sr. Simply
stated, the panel of Grace, Sr. includes upper slots 30 such that
an upper portion of the panel is capable of being fixedly
securable and a plurality of lower slots 32 that are capable of
permitting relative movement of a lower portion of the panel to
the upper portion thereof.
Akin to the examiner’s point of view (answer, page 5), this
panel of the Board is not convinced by the argument of appellants
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