Appeal No. 1999-1317
Application No. 08/632,216
adhesive labels 29 disposed on a support liner 30, a head 28
for printing information on the labels, an anvil 31 having a
sharp edge for separating the labels 29 from the liner 30, a
pivotally mounted arm 4 having a vacuum drum/flange 9, 10 on
its free end for picking up a label after its separation from
the liner, a jack 18 for moving the arm toward the conveyor
belt such that the drum/flange 9, 10 contacts and applies the
label to an article, and a spring 16 for moving the arm back
toward the anvil whereby the drum/flange can pick up another
label.
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). 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
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