Appeal No. 2002-1006
Application 09/132,351
to be given their ordinary and accustomed meanings unless the
inventor chooses to be his own lexicographer in the
specification. In re Bass, 314 F.3d at 577, 65 USPQ2d at 1158,
citing Lantech, Inc. v. Keip Mach. Co., 32 F.3d 542, 547, 31
USPQ2d 1666, 1670 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
We note that Appellant’s claim 1 recites a
method for transmitting a short message to a plurality of
subscribers in a mobile communication system, comprising the
steps of: registering a plurality of called subscriber
numbers in a short message service center of said mobile
communication system by associating each of said plurality
of called subscriber numbers with a group identifier, the
group identifier being a separately defined field.
We note that this step is directed to registering a plurality of
called subscriber numbers. Thus, this step is an attempt to
recover the short message group registration mode disclosed in
Appellant’s specification. Furthermore, the language requires
registering a plurality of subscriber numbers by associating each
of the plurality of subscriber numbers with a group identifier.
Thus, the language requires that a plurality of subscriber
numbers are associated with a group identifier. The step further
sets forth that the group identifier be a separately defined
field. However, the claim does not specify from what the group
identifier is being separately defined. A broad reading of the
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