Appeal No. 2000-1475 Page 8
Application No. 08/844,016
claims are anticipated, "pointing out where all of the
specific limitations recited in the rejected claims are found
in the prior art relied upon in the rejection." MPEP § 1208
also provides (p. 1200-16) that for a rejection under 35
U.S.C. 102 where there are questions as to how limitations in
the claims correspond to features in the prior art, "the
examiner shall compare at least one of the rejected claims
feature by feature with the prior art relied on in the
rejection. The comparison shall align the language of the
claim side-by- side with a reference to the specific page,
line number, drawing reference number, and
quotation from the prior art, as appropriate."
In this case, the examiner has not shown how any claim on
appeal is "readable on" Rivard. That is, the examiner has not
provided any explanation as to how Rivard contains a
disclosure which is specific as to every element of the claims
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
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