Appeal No. 2006-1489
Application No. 10/452,059
well as shingle or tile types beyond those shown on this page.
Similarly, the Rowe patent disclosure is not limited to roofing
elements or laminates 36 inches wide and 60 feet long which are
packaged in the form of a roll and thus includes roofing elements
other the roll forms shown on page 3 of the Manual.
In this latter regard, it is appropriate to emphasize that
the 36 inch wide and 60 feet long laminate described in the
paragraph bridging columns 2 and 3 of Rowe is intended to be cut
to the particular dimensions required by the roofing substrate
which will be covered with the laminate (see the patent
disclosure in its entirety; also see as a supporting comparison
the above discussed Manual in its entirety). In fact, Rowe
expressly teaches that laminate widths more narrow than the
aforementioned 36 inches can be utilized in other roofing
applications (see column 8, lines 51-59) and specifically
discloses a laminate width of 12 inches for use as flashing
strips (id., at lines 59-62). In applying such a flashing strip
to a roofing substrate having, for example, a 40 inch length, it
would have been obvious and indeed necessary for an artisan to
cut the laminate flashing to a corresponding length of, for
example, 40 inches.
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