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          Appeal No. 2005-0768                                                        
          Application No. 10/010,203                                                  
               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).                                                       
               The examiner’s determination that the claim language at                
          issue reads on the combination of Mason’s gib 17, cushion 19 and            
          shoe 13 is well founded.  Although Mason does not describe these            
          elements as constituting a “vibration isolator,” the cushion 19             
          and either, or both, of the gib 17 and the shoe 13 embody a                 
          construction which (1) is structurally identical to the vibration           
          isolator recited in claim 2, i.e., a plurality of layers with at            
          least one layer (Mason’s gib 17 or shoe 13) being a hard layer              
          and at least one layer (Mason’s cushion 19) being a soft layer,             
          and (2) will inherently function to isolate vibrations.                     


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