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To anticipate a claim under § 102, a single prior art reference must disclose each and every element of the claimed invention, arranged as in the claim, either expressly or inherently

The Federal Circuit has consistently held that "[t]he identical invention must be shown in as complete detail as is contained in the

There is no room under the anticipation standard for combining elements from different embodiments or for supplying missing elements through inference; the reference must teach each element either explicitly or inherently

Furthermore, there must be "some articulated reasoning with some rational underpinning to support the legal conclusion of obviousness

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The tapered impedance-matching limitation added by the amendments must be cross-checked against the disclosure of the provisional application to confirm that priority support exists