Appeal No. 1999-0475
Application No. 08/402,031
invention as recited in claims 7, 13, and 18-33. Accordingly,
we reverse.
We consider first the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
rejection of claims 1, 4-6, 8-12, 14, 16, and 17 as being
anticipated by Montagna. 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 & Assocs. 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 claims 1 and 14, the Examiner
attempts to read the various limitations on the disclosure of
Montagna. In particular, the Examiner points (Answer, page 4)
to the block diagram illustrations in Figures 1 and 4 of
Montagna, as well as to Montagna’s description of the
organization of stored “hyperpages” of text and graphics in
the hierarchical indexing system illustrated in Figure 3.
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