Appeal No. 1999-2057
Application 08/405,062
user terminal 12, 14, and a meeting room server 48 connected
to the ports for creating an electronic circuit configuration
in the network as recited in claim 1. The electronic circuit
configuration, defined by the interconnection of ports and the
virtual meeting room data structure (Fig. 3A), represents a
controllably persistent virtual meeting room. We conclude
that the Examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case
of nonenablement. The rejection of claims 1-18 is reversed.
35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
"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).
Claims 1-10, 12-16, and 18
Claims 1 and 18 are similar. Claim 1 is broader because
it recites "means . . . for effectuating connections in one or
more selected media between selected ones of the plurality of
ports," whereas claim 18 more specifically recites "means for
establishing voice, video, and data connections between at
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