Appeal No. 2001-2601
Application No. 09/167,897
and Lindemann Maschinenfabrik GMBH v. American Hoist & Derrick
Co., 730 F.2d 1452, 1458, 221 USPQ 481, 485 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Appellant argues that Briechle does not teach the use of a
table to link unique electronic price label addresses with unique
groups. Appellant argues that the claims recite unique
addressing as a method of communication with grouped electronic
price labels. Briechle teaches sub-global addressing and that
the Appellant has carefully distinguished between sub-global
addressing and unique addressing as claimed. We further note
that the Appellant has carefully shown the relied upon claim
language in each of the claims that distinguishes over Briechle.
See pages 6-16 of Appellant's brief.
In response, the Examiner argues that the Briechle invention
is not limited to the use of gondola controllers in the
Briechle's sub-global addressing method. The Examiner points us
to column 15, lines 7-12, of Briechle, which states that it is
possible to have a wired system where the communications channel
is direct from the host to the labels, not mediated by gondola
controllers or appenders, that accomplishes many of the desirable
features of the invention. The Examiner argues that Briechle's
sub-global addressing method is capable of being implemented
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