Appeal No. 1999-1785
Application No. 08/512,656
§ 102(b) of claims 15 and 18. We see that claims 15 and 18
require that a seal member be disposed in the seat, and that
the internal member and external members be “fitted together”,
respectively. Appellant’s argument (brief, page 7), with
respect to each of these claims, is simply that no such
element appears in, or is disclosed in Totten. Again, it is
quite clear to us that Totten does indeed show a seal 104
disposed in a seat defined between the internal and external
members, and the internal member 88 being “fitted together”
with external member 92 in the assembled actuator depicted in
Figure 3 of the patent. We will, therefore, sustain the
examiner’s rejection of claims 15 and 18 under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being clearly anticipated by Totten.
Looking at the rejection of claim 19 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being clearly anticipated by Totten, we see that
claim 19 recites that the “internal member defines an internal
bore.” The patent to Totten shows an internal member 88 that
appears to be solid, and thus includes no such internal bore.
Accordingly, we must agree with appellant that “an internal
bore in the internal member . . . . does not appear in Totten”
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