Appeal No. 95-4603 Page 3
Application 08/101,641
DISCUSSION
The combination of Jacobson and Eichelberger would not
have led a person having ordinary skill in the art to the
claimed subject matter. Jacobson teaches the virtue of
better-quality seeds, but he also teaches generating these
seeds by masking a random source for seed values. (10:9-38.)
This teaching is inimical to the claimed invention, which
identifies useful seeds from an existing sequence. Assuming,
arguendo, that a person having ordinary skill in the art would
have combined the references, the combination suggested by the
references would not have included seed skipping in the sense
taught in the specification and set forth in the claims.
Although we are to read claims broadly during prosecution, our
reading must be reasonable in light of the claim as a whole
and in light of the specification.
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