Appeal No. 2002-2238 Application No. 09/107,768 Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) § 2131, particularly the subsection entitled “TO ANTICIPATE A CLAIM, THE REFERENCE MUST TEACH EVERY ELEMENT OF THE CLAIM” (8th Edition, Rev. 1, Feb. 2003). Claim 24 has, for example, different elements than claim 1, including: 1) a program, resident in the memory, 2) the program configured to detect a lock-up condition in the apparatus resulting from a failed attempt to access data with an external storage device coupled to the bus through a failed controller, and 3) in response thereto to enable a user to replace the failed controller with a replacement controller, 4) the program further configured to automatically update the resource to associate the replacement controller with the resource, and 5) to automatically rectify the lock-up condition by automatically resuming the failed attempt to access data with the external storage device. These elements have not been addressed in the final rejection or in the Examiner’s Answer. Anticipation under 35 U.S.C. Section 102(e) requires that "each and every element as set forth in the claim is found, either 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007