Appeal No. 99-1479
Application 08/609,991
Rasmussen 5,275,483 Jan. 4, 1994
Claims 14 to 16, 22, 23, 30, 32, 33, 35 and 36 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Grass AG.
In order for a claim to be anticipated, every
limitation thereof must be disclosed, expressly or inherently,
in a single prior art reference. In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d
1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d 1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997). We will
therefore first consider whether the limitations of
independent claim 14 are disclosed by Grass AG.
Reading Grass AG in relation to claim 14, we find
that Grass AG discloses a pull-out guide for a drawer 2 in an
article of furniture (cabinet) 1, the guide having (i) a
supporting runner 3 which is mounted on the furniture body,
has upper and lower running flanges at the top and bottom of
member 14, and has a running member (roller) 13, and (ii) a
pull-out runner 4 which is mounted on the drawer by plate 9
and hook 35 (page 7, lines 4 to 6; page 9, lines 1 to 9), a
horizontal fin 18, and a running member 11 which is guided
between the upper and lower flanges of member 14. Roller 13
3
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