Appeal No. 2000-0513
Application 08/803,047
panels 16, and a plurality of columns 4. Each column consists
of a U-shaped metal piece having side walls 7 and a back wall
8, shelves 10 dividing the column into a series of
compartments 5 for holding the articles offered for sale, a
front closure 15 slidable downwardly to sequentially uncover
the articles and a mechanism operable upon deposit of the
proper coin in the corresponding slot 54 for actuating the
closure including a plunger 34, a plunger guide bracket 35 and
a plunger handle 60.
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. 1984). It is not necessary that
the 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.
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