Appeal No. 96-2865
Application No. 08/081,561
trying experiments again, if necessary, until they feel
comfortable with the concepts. Freedom to try new
strategies and to experiment is greater with the
videodisc-based lessons than in the wet lab, which is
strictly limited by time, equipment and the
availability of chemicals [page 21].
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In other words, there must be no
difference between the claimed invention and the reference
disclosure, as viewed by a person of ordinary skill in the field
of the invention. Scripps Clinic & Research Found. v. Genentech
Inc., 927 F.2d 1565, 1576, 18 USPQ2d 1001, 1010 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
Independent claim 1 recites an apparatus comprising, inter
alia, “means by which the user can assemble a plurality of the
objects pictured on the display means into an operating pictorial
representation of an operating experimental configuration, the
experimental configuration being characterized by a relationship
among a plurality of experimental parameters” and “means by which
the user can simulate the performance of an experiment using the
pictorial representation of the experimental configuration
. . . .” Independent claim 17 recites a method comprising, inter
alia, the steps of “enabling the student to assemble a plurality
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