Appeal No. 99-0165
Application 08/478,070
assembly point in a manufacturing line where the components of
each pair are folded toward one another and separated from the
belt-like member. The belt-like member is an integrally
molded construction consisting of a central runner 2 and pairs
of complementary pinching pieces 1 connected to the central
runner at spaced intervals by base parts 3. As shown in
Figure 1, each of the pinching pieces has a slot adjacent its
outer end and what appears to be a bore adjacent its inner
end.
Anticipation is established only 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.), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228
(1984). In other words, there must be no difference between
the claimed invention and the reference disclosure, as viewed
by a person of ordinary skill in the field of the invention.
Scripps Clinic & Research Found. v. Genentech Inc., 927 F.2d
1565, 1576, 18 USPQ2d 1001, 1010 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
The examiner has determined that the Japanese reference
discloses each and every element of the belt recited in
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