Appeal No. 2006-0673 Page 19
Application No. 09/919,555
781, 783, 26 USPQ2d 1529, 1531 (Fed. Cir. 1993) (quoting In re Rinehart, 531 F.2d
1048, 1051, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976)).
Here, Perttunen discloses "a system for forming at least one molecular detection
device." (Col. 3, ll. 46-47.) The "molecular detection device including a support
member (36) and a plurality of molecular receptors (34) arranged at a plurality of sites of
the support member (36)." (Abs., ll. 1-3.) A "data writing device 37 writes data
associated with the mapping [of the receptors] directly to the support member 36 or to
another member associated with the support member 36. The data can include data
which indicates or encodes the mapping, and/or data which identifies the mapping."
(Col. 4, ll. 62-67.) Examples of the writing include "writ[ing] magnetic data to a
magnetic storage medium; . . . writ[ing] electronic data to an electronic storage device
such as a memory; . . . writ[ing] printed data to a substrate; and . . . writ[ing] optical data
to an optical storage medium." (Col. 5, ll. 7.) We find that writing of the data associated
with the mapping to the magnetic storage medium, the substrate, the memory, or the
optical storage medium teaches the claimed saving of some sort of data in a memory.
The reference further explains that "[t]he molecular detection device includes a
substrate 120 which supports a molecular detection array 122." (Col. 8, ll. 20-21.) "The
substrate 120 includes a perforation 124 which demarcates a first portion 126 from a
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