Appeal No. 2001-1197
Application No. 09/019,137
Therefore, we find that all the claims before us require a self-
relative pointer whose value is an offset from the location of
the pointer itself.
It is axiomatic that anticipation of a claim under § 102 can
be found only if the prior art reference discloses every element
of the claim. See In re King, 801 F.2d 1324, 1326, 231 USPQ 136,
138 (Fed. Cir. 1986) and Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GMBH v.
American Hoist & Derrick Co., 730 F.2d 1452, 1458, 221 USPQ 481,
485 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Upon our review of Gray, we find that Gray teaches pointers
of a data structure and point into the data structure such that
the point-to location is offset by a value of the pointer from a
base address/location of the data structure and does not teach
Appellant's claimed invention that the pointer uses the
address/location of the pointer. In particular, we note that the
three elements "mdisp", "pdisp" and "vdisp" of the pointer are
defined in column 13, lines 31 through 41. As taught by Gray,
the dereferencing of the pointer means determining which location
the pointer points to. The sentence at column 15, lines 6
through 9, is essentially saying that the pointer to the data
member of an introducing class points to a location within the
data structure of the introducing class that is offset by the
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