Appeal No. 1998-0414
Application 08/202,422
such things as a “line”, with the line attribute being line
color or line width, etc. Thus, Appellant would like us to
read the specific disclosed embodiment into the claim. We
will not do this. Claims are to be given their broadest
reasonable interpretation during prosecution. In re Zletz,
893 F.2d 319, 321, 13 USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989); In
re Prater, 415 F.2d 1393, 1404, 162 USPQ 541, 550 (CCPA 1969).
It is improper to narrow the scope of the claim by implicitly
reading in disclosed limitations from
the specification which have no express basis in the claims.
See Id.
The Examiner cites Alexander as displaying graphic
element data in groups related to physical attributes stored
in a memory. However, Alexander’s example of graphic element
data is data relating to, for example, one truck in a fleet of
trucks. And, the “attributes” include accordingly, present
location, total capacity of truck, percent capacity, etc.
Note column 4, lines 4-19, where Alexander states:
If, for example, the data object
is one of a fleet of trucks
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