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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