Appeal No. 1997-2989
Application No. 08/280,343
each and every element of a claimed invention. See RCA Corp.
V. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Analysis
We take the claims in the order they are discussed in the
brief.
Claims 1, 9, 10 and 15
We consider claim 1. Appellants argue [brief, page 7]
that "[c]laim 1 further recites the step of ’displaying an
indicator in association with each of said other workstations
that has a pending request at the master work station . . .
.’" Appellants further advocate that Lewis does not show this
feature [id. at page 8 and reply brief, pages 2 to 3]. The
Examiner points [answer, pages 11 to 13] to icon 242, fig. 4B
of Lewis, as showing a plurality of the pending requests.
However, we agree with Appellants that icon 242 does not show
each of the pending requests, it only shows the total number
of pending requests.
We note that, in fig. 3 of Lewis, the host (teacher) has
monitors 130 and 132 which display two callers (students)
calling for the attention of the host, and using buttons 134
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