Appeal No. 2004-0334 Page 4
Application No. 08/853,608
A claim is anticipated only if each and every element as set forth in the claim is
found, either expressly or inherently described, in a single prior art reference.
Verdegaal Bros. Inc. v. Union Oil Co., 814 F.2d 628, 631, 2 USPQ2d 1051, 1053 (Fed.
Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 827 (1987). The inquiry as to whether a reference
anticipates a claim must focus on what subject matter is encompassed by the claim and
what subject matter is described by the reference. As set forth by the court in Kalman
v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert.
denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984), it is only necessary for the claims to "'read on' something
disclosed in the reference, i.e., all limitations of the claim are found in the reference, or
'fully met' by it."
In this case, claims 1 and 6 (the independent claims on appeal) are not
anticipated by Porter for the reasons set forth on pages 16-22 and 26-31 of the brief
and pages 6-9 of the reply brief. Specifically, Porter does not disclose the following
structural limitations of claim 1:
(1) "Z referencing means on a sleeve attached to said autochanger storage rack,
providing preliminary, intermediate and final Z direction referencing between said data
cartridge and said data cartridge caddy during installation of said data cartridge into
said data cartridge caddy by said data cartridge handling mechanism of said
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