Appeal No. 2001-1845
Application 09/093,454
stand by our findings and conclusions set forth in the decision
mailed March 28, 2002.
Unlike appellants, we view the showing in Figure 4 of Pracht
and the discussion thereof in that patent as being directed to
one embodiment of Pracht’s invention wherein each architectural
panel (22) of a multi-story building is attached to the building
structure in a spandrel panel manner like that depicted in Figure
4, i.e., wherein each panel is cantilevered off of the building
structure frame (65) of a single story or floor and would thus be
structurally decoupled from panels associated with other stories
or floors of the multi-story building similarly attached to their
associated story or floor. Contrary to appellants’ assertions,
we find no reason to conclude that the showing in Figure 4 of
Pracht and the teaching we take therefrom is limited to a single
story building. While it is true that Figure 4 does not show
additional stories, it is clear to us from a reading of the
patent as a whole that this Figure is representative of one
method for attaching the panels (22) of Pracht to a multi-story
building.
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