Appeal No. 1998-1716 Page 6
Application No. 08/526,942
claimed invention from the isolated teachings of the prior
art. See, e.g., Grain Processing Corp. v. American
Maize-Products Co., 840 F.2d 902, 907, 5 USPQ2d 1788, 1792
(Fed. Cir. 1988).
With this as background, we analyze the prior art applied
by the examiner in the rejection of the claims on appeal.
Myers discloses production line equipment which is
utilized in producing many large concrete panels, in an
initial horizontal position with these panels preferably being
later installed vertically with other like panels to form a
sound barrier alongside a vehicle way. As shown in Figure 3-
6, the preferred concrete panel 42 has integral pilasters 126,
128 formed at each side of an integral central planar body
130. The community view side 160 of the concrete panel 42 is
illustrated in Figure 3. The vehicle way view side 162 of the
concrete panel 42 is shown in Figure 4. A tongue edge 164 and
a groove edge 166 of each concrete panel 42 is observable in
Figures 5 and 6. As shown in
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