Appeal No. 2006-0673 Page 15
Application No. 09/919,555
instructions for the processor on how to read the array or process data from the
array." (Reply Br. at 17.)
Like the appellants' invention,5 Cattell '351 "relates to arrays, particularly
biopolymer arrays (such [as] polynucleotide arrays, and particularly DNA arrays). . . ."
(Col. 1, ll. 6-7.) "FIG. 4 [of the reference] represent[s] an apparatus for producing an
addressable array, which is sometimes references herein as a 'fabrication station'.
FIG. 4 also illustrates an apparatus for receiving an addressable array, in particular a
single 'user station', which is remote from the fabrication station. " (Col. 10, ll. 5-9.)
In the fabrication station, a "local identifier is stored in memory 141 in association
with the corresponding unique identifier and array layout." (Col. 11, ll. 18-20.) We find
that Cattell '351's saving of the local identifier or the unique identifier in the memory 141
anticipates the claimed saving of some sort of data in a memory.
The reference explains that "[p]rocessor 140 then controls the fabricator . . . to
generate the one or more arrays on substrate 10 which correspond to the received
5Herbert F. Cattell, the patentee of Catell '351, is one of the co-appellants in the
instant case.
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