Appeal 2007-0996
Application 09/949,721
22 ) for displaying image on a display screen 14 based on the image signal
data supplying an image supplying source 24 (col. 16, lines 64 - col. 17
line 7)." (Answer 4.) The Appellant argues "that the enhancement film 24
includes no image information itself and cannot provide an image data
supplying source." (Reply Br. 2.) Therefore, the issue is whether Inbar
alone teaches, or whether Inbar, Cole, AAPA, or Greene collectively would
have suggested, a data source for supplying image signal data to a flat-
shaped transmission display device.
"Both anticipation under § 102 and obviousness under § 103 are two-
step inquiries. The first step in both analyses is a proper construction of the
claims. . . . The second step in the analyses requires a comparison of the
properly construed claim to the prior art." Medichem, S.A. v. Rolabo, S.L.,
353 F.3d 928, 933, 69 USPQ2d 1283, 1286 (Fed.Cir. 2003) (internal
citations omitted).
III. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
Claims 1 and 19 recite in pertinent part the following limitations:
"a flat-shaped transmission display device for displaying on a display screen
thereof an image based on image signal data supplied from an image data
supplying source. . . ." Considering the limitations, the independent claims
require a data source for supplying image signal data to a flat-shaped
transmission display device.
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