Appeal No. 2005-1004 4
Application No. 09/656,333
Therefore, we shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph, rejection of claims 7 and 9.3
II. The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 1, 2, 8 and 10 as
being anticipated by Schaede
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).
Schaede discloses a printing machine (see Figures 1 and 2)
comprising a print cylinder 1, an impression cylinder 2 and four
transfer cylinders 3, 4, 29 and 30. In use, transfer cylinder 3
acts as a hand-over cylinder for transporting sheets supplied by
transfer cylinder 29 to the impression cylinder 2, and transfer
cylinder 4 acts as a take-over cylinder for accepting printed
sheets from the impression cylinder 2 and passing them on to
transfer cylinder 30. To effect the conveyance of the sheets,
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amendment (see the advisory action mailed August 14, 2003).
3 In addition to the terms noted by the examiner, the
references in claims 7 and 8 to “said feed cylinder” also lack a
proper antecedent basis. In the event of further prosecution,
suitable steps should be taken to address these irregularities.
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