Appeal No. 1999-2633
Application 08/680,325
particles which permit adjustment of the web’s permeability to
heat, moisture, and sound. These particles may comprise
synthetic plastic materials (see column 2, lines 55 through 61)
and can be joined adhesively to the walls of the canals by
thermoplastically softening the foam or using a reactive adhesive
(see column 2, lines 33 through 39).
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 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, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
The examiner’s analysis as to how the limitations in claims
5 and 6 read on Ebert appears on pages 3, 4 and 6 in the answer.
The appellant (see pages 3 through 5 in the main brief and pages
1 and 2 in the reply brief) maintains that this analysis is
flawed, and thus the rejection is unsound, because Ebert does not
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