Appeal No. 2005-1843 Page 4
Application No. 09/585,222
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."
Independent claims 1 and 7 read as follows:
1. A barstock body fluid control valve comprising:
a barstock body of preselected material having an inlet end and an outlet
end, and a substantially uniform transverse cross-section defining the outer
walls;
a through machined main flow port located eccentrically on said inlet and
said outlet ends;
wherein said main flow port eccentric location increases the available
barstock thickness at one outer wall location and decreases barstock thickness in
the opposite wall.
7. A two port fluid control valve comprising:
a barstock body having outerwalls extending between an inlet end and an
outlet end defined by a substantially uniform transverse cross-section
circumscribed about a central longitudinal axis;
a machined through bore extending between the inlet end and the outlet
end of the barstock body about an offset longitudinal throughbore axis parallel
spaced from the central longitudinal axis,
the through bore is eccentrically located with respect to the outer walls
producing a thicker outerwall portion and a relatively thinner opposite wall portion
of the barstock body; and
wherein a stem port communicates perpendicularly with said throughbore
machined through said thicker outer wall portion of the barstock body.
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