Appeal No. 2002-1114
Application No. 09/154,100
will not sustain the Examiner's rejection of claims 1-3 and 6
under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principle of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention." RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984), citing Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp.,
713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983).
Appellants argue that Nagashima does not show a cellular
radio system or the operation of the channel groups as recited in
claim 7. See page 10 of Appellants' brief.
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is the
claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d 1523,
1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998). Claims will be given their broadest
reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification, and
limitations appearing in the specification are not be read into
the claims. In re Etter, 756 F.2d 852, 858, 225 USPQ 1, 5
(Fed. Cir. 1985).
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