Appeal No. 2002-1556
Application 09/409,583
stopped in traffic, to trigger an automatic stationary braking
mode which prevents the vehicle from rolling, even if the brake
pedal is released, until the driver terminates the mode. Nell
teaches with respect to this automatic stationary braking mode
that “[i]n practice, a brake pressure . . . of about 40 bar is
sufficient in all conceivable situations. If the vehicle
nevertheless starts to roll, an additional supply can be
provided, i.e. the brake pressure increased again” (column 10,
lines 19 through 23), and that
[a]n advantageous type of brake-pressure control is
also within the scope of the present invention by
coupling the maximum pressure by driving the brake
booster 14 only into the wheel brakes 9, 11 of the
driven rear wheels of the vehicle and by subjecting
only the front-wheel brakes 7, 8 of the vehicle to a
pressure reduced relative to this maximum achievable
brake pressure by shutting off their inlet valves 24 or
to no pressure at all [column 10, lines 49 through 55;
see also column 14, lines 31 through 34].
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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