Appeal No. 2006-0673 Page 16
Application No. 09/919,555
array layout information and unique identifier." (Id. at ll. 21-24.) "The substrate 10 is
then sent to a cutter 152 where each individual array 12 and its associated local
identifier 356 are separated from the remainder of the substrate 10, as indicated by
reference number 10b, to provide multiple array units 15." (Id. at ll. 28-33.) A "second
copy of the local identifier 356 and corresponding unique identifier 358, are physically
associated with the corresponding array," (id. at ll. 44-60); "[t]he array unit 15 is placed
in package 340," (id. at ll. 38-39); and "[t]he resulting package is then shipped to a
remote user station. . . ." (Id. at ll. 47-48.) We find that Cattell '351's shipping of the
local identifier and the unique identifier to the remote user station anticipates the
claimed forwarding of data to a location remote from where an array is fabricated.6
Therefore, we affirm the rejection of claim 1 and of claims 2, 4-16, and 47-54, which fall
therewith, as anticipated by the reference.
6 Cattell '351 further explains that "[a]t the user station, the resulting package is
then received from the remote fabrication station. . . . A sample, for example a test
sample, is exposed to the array 12 on the array unit 15 received in package 340. The
array is then inserted into scanner 160 and interrogated . . . ." (Col. 11, l. 62 to Col. 12,
l. 4 .)
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