Appeal No. 2003-0946
Application No. 08/904,137
suggests that one use for the disclosed “function programs” is decryption of data, the
reference does not teach that the function programs, themselves, are decrypted before
storage on the card in executable form.
We thus find neither disclosure nor suggestion, within the four corners of the
Hirokawa reference, for appellants’ invention as claimed. Moreover, anticipation, rather
than obviousness, is the basis for the rejection before us. We cannot sustain the
rejection of claims 20-38, 51-58, 71-87, 93, and 94 under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being
anticipated by Hirokawa.
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