UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES
Appeal No. 2007-0484
Ex parte DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(10/037,942),
Appellant.
ENTERED: 9 April 2007
DECISION – Bd. R. 50(a)
Before LEE, TORCZON, and SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judges.
TORCZON, Administrative Patent Judge.
INTRODUCTION
The claimed invention broadly relates to building panels with domains
having different compressive strengths. All but one of the pending claims are
rejected as having been obvious in view of the prior art.1 We AFFIRM.
Claims
The appellant (Dow) treats all of the rejected claims as standing or falling
together except claim 22.2 Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal
(emphasis added):
1. A building panel comprising at least two panel domains,
wherein each panel domain has an essentially homogeneous
compressive strength and an average compressive strength; wherein
said panel:
1 The exception, claim 18, is the subject of an objection because it depends from
rejected claim 16.
2 Appeal Brief (AB) at 4. The claim language is taken from the claims appendix to
the Appeal Brief.
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