Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
the data operations such that the execution of the data
operations will occur on the designated field range.
The Examiner relies on the following patent:
Rothfield 5,428,776 June 27,
1995
Claims 1, 3-32, 34-43, and 45-55 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by Rothfield.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 8) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 16) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 14)
(pages referred to as "Br__") and the reply brief (Paper
No. 17) (pages referred to as "RBr__") for Appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
The claims are grouped to stand or fall together (Br3).
Claim 1 is selected as representative.
"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).
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