Appeal No. 2001-1894
Application No. 09/108,741
This leaves for consideration the combination of
Guarriello and Taylor. Taylor discloses a preassembled panel
P made up of individual tile units 10, which have hollow
interior spaces 16, which may be filled with concrete (col. 3,
lines 22 to 25).
The panel is held together by bands 36 which circumscribe the
tiles, and caps 40 at the opposed edges of the panel.
According to Taylor, the use of preassembled panels allows
walls, partitions, roofs, etc. to be constructed in a shorter
period of time, more efficiently, and at a cheaper cost (col.
2, lines 1 to 5; also col. 4, lines 42 to 44).
In view of this disclosure of Taylor, we conclude that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
assemble a plurality of the foam forms disclosed by
Guarriello, assembled one on top of the other (col. 4, lines 8
to 17), using circumscribing bands and caps as disclosed by
Taylor. The motivation for doing so would have been Taylor’s
above-noted disclosure that the use of such preassembled units
saves time, is more efficient, and is cheaper.
Appellant argues that the combination of Guarriello and
Taylor would not have been obvious because Taylor’s
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