Appeal No. 2002-0035
Application No. 08/861,918
portions 14 and 16, together with the flexible membrane
18 between the seals 19, seal the immersion chambers 12
from the ambient environment external of the sealed
cryogenic vessel 10, thereby containing a cryogenic
liquid 42 in the immersion chambers 12 and preventing
frost formation.
The flexible membrane 18 may be a commercially
available flex-circuit made of material which does not
become rigid at cryogenic temperatures such as, for
instance, a polyimide or Teflon material.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, either expressly or under the 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 of 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).
Appellants contend (supplemental brief, page 11) that Porter
does not teach the new features of [the] present
invention which are now defined in claims 44 and 45 but
instead teaches a structure which is different,
operates in a different manner, and does not have a
conductor track formed as a bendable carrier film which
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