Appeal No. 1999-2363
Application 08/587,710
claims 5, 6, 9, 10 and 32 as being anticipated by Chartier, it
is axiomatic that 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).
Chartier discloses a cap 10 for securement over the head
11 of a screw or bolt fastener 12. The cap includes a hollow
head portion 13 for fitting about the fastener head and a cap
attachment portion 14 for snap-fitting over a circumferential
flange 11” on the head. As shown in Figure 2, the screw or
bolt fastener may have a rubber washer 24 disposed about its
shank below the head for compression between the head and the
surface to which the bolt or screw fastener is secured.
Independent claim 5 recites a clip-on nut comprising,
inter alia, a nut-element retainer and a nut-element secured
to the nut-element retainer by elements allowing the nut-
element to float in position radially a limited amount
relative to the nut-element retainer. According to the
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