Appeal No. 1998-0620
Application 08/359,089
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).
Independent claim 1 recites "a single unitary body having
an opposing reflector location surface, a light source
location surface, and an opening ...." Independent claim 7
recites "a single unitary illumination registration member
including an opposing reflector location surface, a light
source location surface, and an opening ...."
The Examiner finds that figure 2 of Honma discloses a
document illumination unit which is a single unitary body
having opposing reflector and light source location surfaces
(FR2). Appellant argues that Honma is devoid of any reference
or suggestion that the illumination unit is formed of a single
unitary body and Honma merely discloses a light source and an
opposing reflector which are housed in the same illumination
unit (Br5). The Examiner responds that "the illumination
unit, taken as a whole, is a single unitary body" (EA5).
We agree with Appellant that Honma does not disclose that
the opposing reflector location surface, light source location
surface, and the opening are part of "a single unitary body"
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