Appeal No. 1997-0884
Application 08/260,148
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 13) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 12)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of Appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
"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).
Lindmayer discloses a remote control system, such as the
central locking system of a motor vehicle, having an infrared
receiver IR and control device 1 in the object to be protected
V and a plurality of associated transmitters T to T . The1 m
control device stores n code words CW to CW in n memory1 n
locations, where each key code word is associated with one of
the transmitters T to T . The key code word consists of a1 m
fixed basic portion, CWB , etc., which is object- and
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