Appeal No. 95-1423
Application 07/928,883
conversion. We find the Examiner’s interpretation of a look-
up table to require the retrieval of previously stored values.
Upon a review of Appellant’s specification, we fail to find
any previously stored values for color transformation. In any
case, appellant has not established that the “necessary and
only” reasonable construction of this disclosure supports the
claimed “color look-up table.” For purposes of satisfying the
written description requirement, it is not enough that one may
find it obvious to provide a claimed limitation, rather, the
limitation in question must be expressly described or
otherwise supported by the disclosure. See Lockwood v.
American Airlines Inc., 107 F.3d 1565, 1572, 41 USPQ2d
1961, 1966 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (“One shows that one is ‘in
possession’ of the invention by describing the invention, with
all its claimed limitations, not that which makes it obvious.”
(emphasis in original) (quoted in University of California v.
Eli
Lilly and Co., 119 F.3d 1559, 1566, 43 USPQ2d 1398, 1404 (Fed.
Cir. 1997))). Accordingly, the rejection is sustained.
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