Appeal No. 2001-0243
Application No. 09/001,285
claims alone. In other words, claims 1 through 4, 14 and 17
shall stand or fall with claim 13 and claims 7, 9 through 11
and 18 through 20 shall stand or fall with claim 8.
Lu discloses a vehicle seat (see Figures 9 and 10)
comprising a seat cushion, a backrest 50 and a pillow/headrest
60, with the backrest being foldable down onto the seat cushion
and the pillow/headrest being pivotable through an angle of ±
90 degrees with respect to the plane of the backrest. A
chamber in the rear side of the backrest houses a game set 73
and a chamber in the rear side of the pillow/headrest houses a
TV set 72.
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. 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,
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