Appeal No. 1998-1097
Application No. 08/557,484
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention as
well as disclosing structure which is capable of performing
the recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied
Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385,
388 (Fed. Cir.); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W.L.
Gore and Assoc., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554,
220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851
(1984).
With respect to independent claim 1, the Examiner has
indicated (Answer, page 4) how the various limitations are
read on the disclosure of Senuma, making particular reference
to Senuma’s illustrations in Figures 5 and 6. In response,
Appellant’s arguments primarily center on the Examiner’s
alleged mischaracterization of Senuma’s capacitances C and Cj1 j2
as corresponding to Appellant’s claimed first and second
capacitors. Appellant contends (Brief, page 4), referring to
Senuma, that “...a review of the specification and the
drawings confirms that items C and C are merely thej1 j2
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