Appeal No. 2004-0332
Application No. 09/725,447
12a, 13a, 12b and 13b which are respectively welded together so
as to form a closed section portion 14 containing and connected
to the reinforcing member 16.
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
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).
In finding that the subject matter recited in independent
claim 1 is anticipated by Horiuchi, the examiner reads the
limitations in this claim on Horiuchi’s Figure 5 embodiment in
the manner depicted in the marked-up copy of this drawing figure
appended to the last Office action. Of particular interest is
the examiner’s determination that the curved portions of the
pillar stiffener 12 and inner pillar 13 adjacent the front
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