Appeal No. 1996-3708
Application 07/474,742
OPINION
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 1 through 13,
15 through 34 and 36 through 38 under either 35 U.S.C. §§ 102
or 103.
The 35 U.S.C. § 102 Rejection
First we will consider the rejection of the claims under
35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Engels. Anticipation
is established only when a single prior art reference
discloses, expressly or under the principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention as well as
disclosing structure which is capable of performing the
recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital
Data Sys. Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385,388 (Fed
Cir. 1984), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W. L. Gore
& Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554, 220 USPQ
303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
The Examiner states on page 7 of the answer that the
claimed programmable signal processors are met by Engels’ DSPs
in figure 2. The Examiner further states on page 7 of the
brief that the claimed third (parametric) bus means connecting
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