Appeal No. 97-3195
Application 08/387,419
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). However, the law of
anticipation does not require that the reference teach
specifically what an appellant has disclosed and is claiming but
only that the claims on appeal "read on" something disclosed in
the reference, i.e., all limitations of the claim are found in
the reference. See Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760,
772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S.
1026 (1984).
Claim 1 is drawn to a divider for use in a stacking system
for shipping of a product in multiple layers on a pallet
comprising, inter alia, a bottom wall having a lower surface,
with a downwardly extending foot portion inboard of an edge of
said lower surface, the downwardly extending foot portion being
positioned at a predetermined distance inboard of the edge to
allow the divider to be nested with another like divider when
stacked together, such that an upwardly extending retaining wall
of the another like divider supports the exterior portion of the
bottom wall when nested.
We are of the view that the reinforced pallet of Sanders,
with its bottom wall 12 having a top supporting surface and a
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