Appeal No. 2004-1361
Application No. 09/430,574
1. A tubular connection, comprising:
a female connecting block having an end surface, an opposite
end surface, and a throughbore therebetween, said throughbore
having a chamfer at said end surface, said chamfer and said
throughbore intersecting to define a transition surface; and
a tube mounted in said throughbore of said female connecting
block, said tube having a tapered portion that is seated against
said transition surface of said female connecting block, said
tapered portion terminating in an end-form.
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 2 and 5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by U.S. Pat. No. 5,174,612 to Schnell.
Attention is directed to the brief (Paper No. 17) and to the
final rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 13 and 19) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner regarding
the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
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,
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