Appeal No. 95-4369 Application 08/117,242 A reference must be considered for everything it teaches by way of technology and is not limited to the particular invention it is describing and attempting to protect. EWP Corp. v. Reliance Universal Inc., 755 F.2d 898, 907, 225 USPQ 20, 25 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 843 (1985). A reference must be evaluated for all its teachings and is not limited to its specific embodiments. In re Bode, 550 F.2d 656, 661, 193 USPQ 12, 17 (CCPA 1977); In re Snow, 471 F.2d 1400, 1403, 176 USPQ 328, 329 (CCPA 1973). The fact that Griffin’s plasma source is located on or within the probe does not mean all of its technical disclosures have application only when the plasma source is located on or within the probe. Independent of whether the plasma source is located on or within the probe, Griffin certainly teaches that emissions from the plasma source need not be directly observed by a detector but, instead, may be channeled to the detector through a fiber optic cable. As for whether the plasma source should be located on or within the probe, that would depend on the particular working environment or the task at hand. Based on Griffin, one with ordinary skill in the art would have known that indirectly providing the emissions from a plasma source to its corresponding detector was one way to operate the detector. 10Page: Previous 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007