Appeal No. 1999-2618
Application 08/647,223
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 10) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 21) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position, and to the appeal brief (Paper No. 20)
(pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement of Appellant's
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Anticipation
"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, 3, and 6
Appellant argues that claim 1 is not anticipated
because the APA does not teach the claimed configuration
that "said switch and said buzzer are coupled between said
output terminal and ground." The Examiner finds (FR8): "The
buzzer 26 is coupled between the output terminal (through EL
lamp 12 and the supply voltage) and ground (through switch
25 and transistor 22)." Appellant argues that the
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