Appeal No. 1999-0972
Application 08/724,340
lines 58 through 60). As described by Gay,
[r]eferring now to FIG. 2, a thermal insulation
packet generally denoted by the numeral 30 includes
a containing material 32 which surrounds a body of
insulation material (not shown) and is sealed by a
sealing means 34. The sealing means 34 is
preferably environmentally safe, and may consist of
sewing thread, thermal bonding or any other
technique which is known to those of ordinary skill
in the art. Although the containing material 32
should allow air to pass therethrough to permit
compression for conforming to various spaces, the
material should not allow insulation contained
therein to escape. Even as the insulation packet
may be closely shaped to the space to be insulated,
some shaping will undoubtedly be necessary, and the
containing material is preferably made of an air-
permeable material. Thermal insulation packet 30
may be shaped into an individual pillow-like
insulation packet 36 as shown in FIG. 2. The
insulation packet may be between about 6 and 16
inches high, between about 6 and 16 inches deep, and
between about 12 and 24 inches wide [column 3, lines
24 through 42].
Anticipation is established 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
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