Appeal No. 1998-0879
Application 08/251,730
Claims 1-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by Kantner.
Claims 30-33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Kantner and Bhargava.
We refer to the second Official Action (Paper No. 9),
the Final Rejection (Paper No. 14), and the Examiner's
Answer (Paper No. 20) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a
statement of the Examiner's position and to the Appeal Brief
(Paper No. 19) (pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement
of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
"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).
Kantner discloses a method and system for compressing
digitized color video data. During compression, each image
is decomposed into a plurality of non-overlapping,
contiguous rectangular regions termed elementary units,
typically a four by four matrix of pixels (col. 4,
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