Appeal No. 96-1190
Application 07/950,177
(filed July 20, 1989)
Claims 17-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Katsuyama.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 9) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 14) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 13) (pages
referred to as "Br__") and the Reply Brief (Paper No. 15)
(pages referred to as "RBr__") for a statement of appellant's
position.
OPINION
"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).
Claims 17-21
Appellant argues that Katsuyama does not perform the
claimed steps of "identifying signals representative of images
of characters for which no match is found as ambiguous
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