Appeal No. 2000-0328
Application No. 08/863,345 Page 8
At step 561 the trigger and sensor flags are checked to determine
if any tampering has occurred during the armed mode. If
tampering is indicated, at step 563 the chirp counter is set to
3, and at step 564, the point of intrusion is indicated by the
active flag (or flags) is loaded into the LED register for
display by the LED control function. The proper LED pulse count
corresponding to the intrusion point is set and at step 693, the
LEDs are turned on (col. 12, line 50 to col. 13, line 9 and col.
17, lines 46-68). From the teachings of Drori, we agree with
appellant's statement (brief, page 10) that "[t]he only
modification suggested by Drori would be to provide for Chang to
respond to the owner's disarming of the system to indicate that
tampering took place." However, for the reasons which follow, we
find that the prior art suggests the invention set forth in claim
1.
As stated by the court in In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362,
1369, 47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998) “[t]he name of the
game is the claim.” Claims will be given their broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification, and
limitations appearing in the specification are not to be read
into the claims. In re Etter, 756 F.2d 852, 858, 225 USPQ 1, 5
(Fed. cir. 1985).
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