Appeal No. 2002-0339
Application 09/226,252
F.2d 705, 708, 15 USPQ2d 1655, 1657 (Fed. Cir. 1990); and RCA
Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). However, the law of
anticipation does not require that the reference teach
specifically what an appellant has disclosed and is claiming but
only that the claims on appeal "read on" something disclosed in
the reference, i.e., all limitations of the claim are found in
the reference. See 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 unsintered firearm projectile of claim 23 comprises cold
compacted iron powder.
Knight teaches (page 1, lines 64 through 79) a method of
making bullets wherein a mixture of lead powder and iron powder
with fat, wax, or oil is extruded into wire, and then cut into
short wire lengths and pressed into a bullet in a bullet press.
The examiner perceives that the Knight reference discloses
the projectile of claim 23 comprising cold compacted iron powder,
with the pressing step being cold compaction. On the other hand,
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