Appeal No. 98-1036 Application 08/540,193 meet his burden of advancing acceptable reasoning inconsistent with enablement. Accordingly, we shall not sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, rejection of claims 4 through 7 and 11 through 14. With regard to the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection, Mapes discloses a number of different molding strips or base shoes which can be easily attached to and removed from a wall. Generally speaking, these base shoes are elongated wooden strips having a quarter-round shape. In the embodiment illustrated in Figure 4, the base shoe 22 includes rear and bottom grooves forming a rib 23 which is adapted to be grasped by spring clips 24 and 25 extending from a metallic anchor strip member 26 mounted on a base board 10. Anticipation is established when a single prior art reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). It is not necessary that the 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007