Ex Parte Ho et al - Page 7

                Appeal 2007-1059                                                                               
                Application 10/408,598                                                                         

                art reference.  Atlas Powder Co. v. IRECO, Inc., 190 F.3d 1342, 1346, 51                       
                USPQ2d 1943, 1945 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (“In other words, if granting patent                        
                protection on the disputed claim would allow the patentee to exclude the                       
                public from practicing the prior art, then that claim is anticipated, regardless               
                of whether it also covers subject matter not in the prior art.”) (internal                     
                citations omitted).                                                                            
                                                    ANALYSIS                                                   
                                         A. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION                                                 
                   As set forth above, representative claim 1 requires directing an extracted                  
                diffraction order for each signal to a power monitor.  Our reviewing court                     
                states in In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319, 321, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir.                      
                1989) that “claims must be interpreted as broadly as their terms reasonably                    
                allow.”  Our reviewing court further states that "the words of a claim 'are                    
                generally given their ordinary and customary meaning.'"  Phillips v. AWH                       
                Corp., 415 F.3d 1303, 1312, 75 USPQ2d 1321, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2005)                              
                (en banc) (internal citations omitted).  The "ordinary and customary meaning                   
                of a claim term is the meaning that the term would have to a person of                         
                ordinary skill in the art in question at the time of the invention, i.e., as of the            
                effective filing date of the patent application."  Id. at 1313, 75 USPQ2d at                   
                1326.                                                                                          




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