Appeal No. 2001-2254
Application 08/951,937
[brief, page 3]. Consistent with this indication appellants have
made no separate arguments with respect to any of the claims on
appeal. Accordingly, all the claims before us will stand or fall
together. Note In re King, 801 F.2d 1324, 1325, 231 USPQ 136,
137 (Fed. Cir. 1986); In re Sernaker, 702 F.2d 989, 991, 217 USPQ
1, 3 (Fed. Cir. 1983). Therefore, we will consider the rejection
against independent claim 1 as representative of all the claims
on appeal.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention as well
as disclosing structure which is capable of performing the
recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital
Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed.
Cir.); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W.L. Gore and
Associates, Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554, 220 USPQ
303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
With respect to representative claim 1, the examiner has
indicated how he has read the invention on the disclosure of
Mitchell [answer, page 3]. Appellants argue that the mapping
objects of Mitchell have data attributes which is contrary to the
claimed invention. Specifically, appellants argue that the
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