Appeal No. 98-1036
Application 08/540,193
reference teach what the subject application teaches, but only
that the claim read on something disclosed in the reference,
i.e., that all of the limitations in the claim be found in or
fully met by the reference. Kalman v. Kimberly Clark Corp.,
713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert.
denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
The examiner's finding (see page 4 in the answer) that
Mapes' base shoe 22 and its anchor strip spring clips 25 meet,
expressly or under principles of inherency, each and every
element of the invention set forth in claim 1 is well taken.
In this regard, base shoe 22 constitutes a body having a solid
inner core and a front, back, top and bottom. The curvature
at the top of the shoe and the groove at the rear provide full
response under principles of inherency to the recitations of
the means for bending a carpet strip over the top of the body
and the means for receiving and securing the carpet strip in
the body, respectively. The shoe 22 also has a curved lower
surface which is inherently capable of permitting a carpet
strip to be curved thereunder. Anchor strip 26 and its spring
clips 25 constitute means for securing the body to a wall.
The appellant's position that the examiner has improperly
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