Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
No. 21) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief (Supplemental)
(Paper No. 19½) (pages referred to as "Br__") and the Response
to Examiner's Reply (Paper No. 22) (pages referred to as
"RBr__") for a statement of Appellant's position.
OPINION
Claims 2-6
"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).
The Examiner finds the claimed "match token" to
correspond to the "textual block identifiers" in Dickinson
(FR2; EA5, line 10). In Dickinson, "each textual block is a
paragraph within a document" (col. 7, line 68). The "textual
block identifiers" identify the textual block, by document
number and paragraph number, where an "equivalent entry word"
is found as shown in Table 3 (col. 27). "'Equivalent words'
. . . include words which are an exact match to the
corresponding query word as well as those words which are
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