Appeal No. 1998-3385
Application No. 08/601,551
Claims 30-37, 40, 42-43, and 54 are rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Borovoy et al. in view
of Woolsey, Lisle, and Vu/Post. Appellants group claims 30-37
and 42-43 together to form Group 1, while claim 40 alone forms
Group 2.
Rather than reiterate all arguments of Appellants and
Examiner, reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 30-37, 40,
and 42-43 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is
the claim" (Fed. Cir. 1998). Moreover, when interpreting a
claim, words of the claim are generally given their ordinary
and accustomed meaning unless it appears from the
specification or the file history that they were used
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