Legal Opinion
Application of Addison C. Sheckler
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Decided February 25, 1971No. Patent Appeal 8422PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Judge.
This appeal is from the decision of the Patent Office Board of Appeals affirming the examiner’s rejection of claim 5 1 2under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious in view of Barnes 2 considered with Dryden. 3
The invention relates to a masonry block structure. The conventional masonry block familiar to all consists of two flat, concrete layers separated by intervening concrete webs which form insulating air spaces between the two outer layers. In essence, appellant’s block consists of a “sandwich” of two outer layers of load-bearing concrete and an intervening, coextensive layer or core of…
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