in rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s answer.
It is our view, after consideration of the record
before us, that the disclosure of the admitted prior art does
not fully meet the recitations of claims 1-8. Accordingly, we
reverse.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior
art reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention as
well as disclosing structure which is capable of performing
the recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied
Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir.); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228
(1984); W.L. Gore and Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1554, 220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied,
469 U.S. 851 (1984).
With respect to independent claims 1 and 5, the
examiner notes that Figure 2B shows that the wobble frequency
in the second area of a disc recorded in CDV format has a
value of 179.55 kHz. The examiner observes that since the
frequency band of EFM signals is 196-720 kHz, there is no
interference between this frequency band and the wobble
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