Appeal 2006-1160
Application 10/155,453
suggested sending a reference signature set to the POS system where a bank
check was received when the signature on the check cannot be verified.
In addressing the issue, the Board conducts a two-step analysis. First,
we construe the independent claims at issue to determine their scope.
Second, we determine whether the construed claims would have been
obvious.
III. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
Our analysis begins with construing the claim limitations at issue.
"[T]he PTO gives claims their 'broadest reasonable interpretation.'" In re
Bigio, 381 F.3d 1320, 1324, 72 USPQ2d 1209, 1210-11 (Fed. Cir. 2004)
(quoting In re Hyatt, 211 F.3d 1367, 1372, 54 USPQ2d 1664, 1667 (Fed.
Cir. 2000)).
Here, claim 1 recites in pertinent part the following limitations:
"a send reference module for sending the reference signature set to the
point of sale system if the signature verification does not verify the
signature." Claim 10 includes similar limitations. Giving the independent
claims the broadest, reasonable construction, the limitations require sending
a set of reference signatures to the POS system where a bank check was
received upon failure to verify a signature on the check.
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