Appeal No. 1998-2372 Page 6
Application No. 08/639,815
enable the device to have its time adjusted based on reception
of a signal containing location data.... One has but to read
the abstract lines 5-8." (Examiner's Answer at 3-4.)
“‘[T]he main purpose of the examination, to which every
application is subjected, is to try to make sure that what
each claim defines is patentable. [T]he name of the game is
the claim ....’” In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369,
47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (quoting Giles S. Rich,
The Extent of the Protection and Interpretation of
Claims--American Perspectives, 21 Int'l Rev. Indus. Prop. &
Copyright L. 497, 499, 501 (1990)). Here, claims 1, 2, and 8-
10 specify in pertinent part the following limitations: "a
memory medium storing information about time zone boundaries
...." Similarly, claim 11 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations: "providing an element for storing time
zone boundary information ...." Also similarly,
claim 14 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "a computer program stored on said memory medium,
said computer program including instructions for comparing
information about a current location of a timepiece with
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