Appeal No. 2003-0125
Application No. 09/722,529
principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed
invention. See In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d
1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997); In re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475, 1478-
79, 31 USPQ2d 1671, 1673 (Fed. Cir. 1994); In re Spada, 911 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).
Appellant’s claim 26 sets forth a blank that includes, inter
alia, the feature of a front panel of the blank being in an
overlying, outwardly bowed relationship to a back panel. In
light of appellant’s overall disclosure, we comprehend a front
panel bowing outwardly from a back panel to yield an outwardly
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