Appeal No. 2002-1831
Application No. 08/841,320
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).
Claims 1 and 7
Independent claim 1 addresses an automobile assembly line
provided apart from a main long automobile body transferring line
for training an operator in processes related to assembling auto-
parts comprising, inter alia a first closed loop line carrying a
plurality of transferring carriages, a second closed loop line
carrying a plurality of suspension frames, and transferring means
to transfer an automobile body from one transferring carriage to
one suspension frame.
Independent claim 7 sets forth an automobile transferring
system provided apart from a main long automobile body
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