Appeal No. 1998-3326 Page 6
Application No. 08/498,819
each claim defines is patentable. [T]he name of the game is
the claim ....’” In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369,
47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998)(quoting Giles S. Rich,
The Extent of the Protection and Interpretation of
Claims--American Perspectives, 21 Int'l Rev. Indus. Prop. &
Copyright L. 497, 499, 501 (1990)). Here, claims 1-8 specify
in pertinent part the following limitations: "an initializing
means for initializing said clock signal supply means
responsive to a signal from an external circuit; wherein said
clock supply means is a counter for counting a basic clock
signal, and said initialization means
resets the counter responsive to a signal from the external
circuit." Similarly, claim 9 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations: "flip-flop circuits responsive to an
external signal for resetting said counter circuit.” Also
similarly, claim 10 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: “an initialization circuit responsive to a
receiving preparation completion signal from another
microcomputer for resetting said counter.” Accordingly,
claims 1-10 require resetting a counter in response to an
external signal.
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