Appeal No. 1998-1655 Page 10
Application No. 08/367,766
claim 2 specify in pertinent part the following limitations:
a first main surface of said cartridge;
biasing means for urging the cartridge holder to
contact a second main surface of said cartridge so
as to apply a pressing force to the second main
surface of said cartridge;
wherein said biasing means applies the pressing
force to hold and press together said first and
second main surfaces relative to each other due to
said pressing force ....
Giving the claims their broadest reasonable interpretation,
the limitations recite pressing together the first and second
main surfaces of a disk cartridge.
The prior art teaches the limitations. "’All of the
disclosures in a reference must be evaluated for what they
fairly teach one of ordinary skill in the art.’ The use of
patents as references is not limited to what the patentees
describe as their own inventions or to the problems with which
they are concerned. They are part of the literature of the
art, relevant for all they contain.” In re Lemelson, 397 F.2d
1006, 1009, 158 USPQ 275, 277 (CCPA 1968)(quoting In re Boe,
355 F.2d 961, 965, 148 USPQ 507, 510 (1966)).
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