Appeal No. 98-0177
Application No. 08/577,873
See In re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475, 1480-81, 31 USPQ2d 1671, 1675
(Fed. Cir. 1994). It does not require either the inventive
concept of the claimed subject matter or recognition of
inherent properties that may be possessed by the reference.
See Verdegaal Bros., Inc. v. Union Oil Co., 814 F.2d 628, 633,
2 USPQ2d 1051, 1054 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 827
(1987). It also does not require that the reference teach
what the applicant is claiming, but only that the claim on
appeal "read on" something disclosed in the reference, i.e.,
all limitations of the claim are found in
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