Appeal No. 2005-0919
Application No. 10/224,258
subject the appellants’ plastic panels to a buoyancy effect.
Because appealed claim 1 encompasses an embodiment wherein all
cavities are open (cf., the internal open spaces or interstices
of Kuriyama’s mats; again see lines 41-47 in column 6), the
appellants’ claimed panels do not necessarily possess a buoyancy
characteristic.
In summary, for the reasons set forth above and in the
answer, appealed claim 1 is anticipated since each element set
forth in the claim is found, either expressly or inherently
described, in the single prior art reference to Kuriyama.
Constant, 848 F.2d at 1570, 7 USPQ2d at 1064. We hereby sustain,
therefore, the examiner’s Section 102 rejection of all appealed
claims as being anticipated by Kuriyama.
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