Appeal No. 96-0563
Application 07/540,839
Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir.
1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984) (and overruled in
part on another issue), SRI Int'l v. Matsushita Elec. Corp. Of
Am., 775 F.2d 1107, 1118, 227 USPQ 577, 583 (Fed. Cir. 1985).
Moreover, anticipation by a prior art reference does not
require either the inventive concept of the claimed subject
matter or recognition of properties that are inherently
possessed by the reference. See Verdegaal Bros. v. Union Oil
Co., 814 F.2d 628, 631, 2 USPQ2d 1051, 1054 (Fed. Cir.), cert.
denied, 484 U.S. 827 (1987). Also, a reference anticipates a
claim if it discloses the claimed invention such that a
skilled artisan could take its teachings in combination with
his own knowledge of the particular art and be in possession
of the invention. See In re Graves, 69 F.3d 1147, 1152, 36
USPQ2d 1697, 1701 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied,
116 S.Ct. 1362 (1996), quoting from In re LeGrice, 301 F.2d
929, 936, 133 USPQ 365, 372 (CCPA 1962).
With this as background, we turn to the disclosure of the
patent to Beran. It is apparent that Beran (Figure 1)
discloses a wrench assembly that includes an elongate handle
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