Appeal No. 96-1323
Application 08/295,118
make up the integrally molded tray and open-ended plant cells
therein and would be spaced and oriented in the same manner as
set forth in appellant's claim 4 on appeal.
The central one of the nine transversely extending
generally U-shaped grooves of this embodiment in Hinds would
be located equidistant from the two parallel side/end walls of
the tray and have a central axis which would be perpendicular
to the central axes of the longitudinally extending grooves or
"drive member receiving groove means" of the tray, and thus is
seen to be fully responsive to appellant's claimed "alignment
means" required in claims 3 and 5 on appeal. As for the
converging side walls of each plant cell defined in claim 2 on
appeal, this is clearly disclosed in Hinds at, for example,
page 2, lines 85-89.
With respect to the above determinations, we observe
that the law of anticipation does not require that the
reference specifically teach what the appellant has disclosed
and is claiming but only that the claims on appeal "read on"
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