Appeal No. 2004-0172
Application No. 09/528,628
OPINION
At the outset, we note that, in accordance with appellant’s
grouping of claims at page 6 of the brief, all claims will stand
or fall with independent claim 31.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles 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.), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984),
citing Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218
USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026
(1984).
It is the examiner’s position that Shore discloses all of
the claimed subject matter recited in claim 31 in Figure 3,
specifically by elements 320, 334, 336 and 395 depicted therein.
We disagree.
Instant claim 31 requires “automatically displaying” a
thumbnail depiction of a selected starting frame of a sequence of
frames. It also requires “automatically displaying” a thumbnail
depiction of a series of frames from the selected starting frame
up to a number of frames sufficient to fill an indicated time
interval.
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