Appeal No. 1998-1868
Application 08/514,377
blanks of desired length. The machine includes, inter alia, a
glue machine 12, a double facer machine 14, a rotary shear 16
for severing the web into a leader and trailer, a
slitter/scorer 18 for slitting and scoring the web and a cut-
off machine 20 having rotary knives for cutting the web into
the blanks of desired length.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA
Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In other words, there
must be no difference between the claimed invention and the
reference disclosure, as viewed by a person of ordinary skill
in the field of the invention. Scripps Clinic & Research
Found. v. Genentech Inc., 927 F.2d 1565, 1576, 18 USPQ2d 1001,
1010 (Fed. Cir. 1991). Claim 1 recites a method
comprising, inter alia, the steps of passing printed products
between “two superposed knives having oppositely disposed
cutting edges” and moving the two knives in cutting engagement
with one another in a direction that includes a component
perpendicular to the plane of the printed products and a
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