Appeal No. 2001-0529 Page 7
Application No. 08/846,600
texture plane area," Sfarti,2 col. 13, ll. 37-40, we find that each of Young's texture
coordinate constitutes a texel address. Collectively, the reference's red, green, blue,
and alpha texture coordinate constitute a set of texel addresses.3 Because the
reference's texture coordinates are initial coordinates, we find that these represent a
particular point (viz., an initial point) of one of its spans. Therefore, we affirm the
rejection of claim 19 as anticipated by Young.
Obviousness Rejection of Claims 1, 3-9, and 22
"[T]o assure separate review by the Board of individual claims within each group
of claims subject to a common ground of rejection, an appellant's brief to the Board
must contain a clear statement for each rejection: (a) asserting that the patentability of
claims within the group of claims subject to this rejection do not stand or fall together,
and (b) identifying which individual claim or claims within the group are separately
patentable and the reasons why the examiner's rejection should not be sustained." In
re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379, 1383, 63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002 (citing 37
2Although references cannot be combined for anticipation, additional references
may be used to interpret an anticipatory "reference and to reveal what it would have
meant to one of ordinary skill at the time the invention was made." Studiengesellschaft
Kohle, m.b.H.v. Dart Indus., Inc., 726 F.2d 724, 726-27, 220 USPQ 841, 842 (Fed. Cir.
1984). Here, we use Sfarti to interpret Young and to reveal what the latter reference
would have meant to one of ordinary skill at the time the invention was made
3Sfarti confirms our interpretation of Young's red texel address, green texel
address, blue texel address, and alpha texel address as constituting a set of texel
addresses by disclosing that "[t]he general format of a texel is thus {R,G,B,A}t." Col. 13,
ll. 39-40.
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