Ex parte MONACO - Page 6




          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                    


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