Appeal No. 2005-2282 Page 7
Application No. 09/505,807
2. Anticipation Determination
"Having construed the claim limitations at issue, we now compare the claims to
the prior art to determine if the prior art anticipates those claims." In re Cruciferous
Sprout Litig., 301 F.3d 1343, 1349, 64 USPQ2d 1202, 1206 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
"[A]nticipation is a question of fact." Hyatt, 211 F.3d at 1371, 54 USPQ2d at 1667
(citing Bischoff v. Wethered, 76 U.S. (9 Wall.) 812, 814-15 (1869); In re Schreiber, 128
F.3d 1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d 1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997)). "A reference anticipates a
claim if it discloses the claimed invention 'such that a skilled artisan could take its
teachings in combination with his own knowledge of the particular art and be in
possession of the invention.'" In re Graves, 69 F.3d 1147, 1152, 36 USPQ2d 1697,
1701 (Fed. Cir. 1995) (quoting In re LeGrice, 301 F.2d 929, 936, 133 USPQ 365, 372
(CCPA 1962)).
Here, Woodring discloses “. . . streaming an information stream from a producer
to N consumers in a multi-process environment. An inter-process communication (IPC)
channel containing a shared memory is provided between the producer and at least one
of N consumers. The information stream is written into the shared memory by way of a
producer-side interface. The information stream is read from the shared memory by
way of a consumer-side interface." Col. 1, l. 66 - col. 2, l. 7.
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