Appeal No. 99-0637 Page 4
Application No. 08/711,841
Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed.
Cir.), cert dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984).
We find that Anderson does disclose each and every
element of the invention recited in claims 1, 3 and 12. For
an explanation of how the claims read on Anderson, we refer to
the element-by-element analysis set forth by the examiner on
pages 3 and 4 of the answer, which reads as follows:
The patent to Anderson teaches in Fig. 4 with regard
to claims 1 and 3,
providing a body (48),
retaining in said body a device (24') having a
surface thereon (the face of 24'),
positioning a tube [(12)] in a ferrule (24)3
with the end of the tube [(12)] adjacent the face of
the ferrule (24),
positioning the ferrule (24) in the body (48),
compressing the ferrule (24) around the tube
[(12)] to form a seal therebetween, and
positioning and retaining a face of the ferrule
(24) against the surface of the device (face of 24')
to form a seal therebetween.
The tubing section on the left of Figure 4 is inadvertently labeled3
"12'" therein, but is referred to as "12" in column 4, line 54. We shall
refer to the tubing section on the left as "12" in our decision to distinguish
it from the tubing section (12') on the right of Figure 4.
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