Appeal No. 2001-0549
Application No. 08/761,422
Appellant’s invention pertains to a catheter hub anchoring
device. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of which appears in the
appendix to appellant’s brief.
The single reference cited by the examiner in the final
rejection is:
Gereg 4,351,331 Sept. 28, 1982
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Gereg.
Discussion
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA
Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
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