Appeal No. 2002-0121
Application No. 09/023,672
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
Under 35 U.S.C. 102(b), a reference must disclose,
explicitly or implicitly, every limitation of the claimed
invention. Glaxo Inc. v. Novopharm Ltd., 52 F.3d 1043, 1047, 34
USPQ2d 1565, 1567 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 988 (1995).
Each of independent claims 1 and 35 requires, inter alia,
the generation of a “plurality of cryptographic key splits from
seed data,” in one form or another. The quoted portion is from
claim 35.
The examiner points to column 1, lines 57-67, of Hirsch for
a teaching of this limitation. In particular, the examiner
relies on Hirsch’s “container multibit locations” as a teaching
of the claimed plurality of key split generators. The examiner
explains that the key splits in Hirsch are the individual bits of
the stored input binary number rearranged as a function of random
number values and that the claimed seed data from which the key
splits are generated are the individual bits of the stored input
binary number and the different ones of a unique sequence of
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