Appeal No. 2006-0673 Page 20
Application No. 09/919,555
second portion 130. Data 132 indicative of the mapping is supported by the second
portion 130." (Id. at ll. 34-37.) "In use, the second portion 130 is separated from the
first portion 126 along the perforation 124 prior to applying a sample to the molecular
detection array 122. An end user retains the second portion 130 for safekeeping," (id.
at ll. 38-42), and "[t]he sample is applied to the molecular detection array 122." (Id. at
ll. 43-44.) We find that the user's retention of the portion of the substrate containing
data indicative of the mapping implies that the substrate containing the data was
forwarded to a location remote from where the array was fabricated.
For its part, Ellson "relates to the formation and use of biomolecular arrays on a
substrate in conjunction with machine-readable information contained within the same
substrate." (¶ 0002.) "The information may be contained in a substrate having one or
more types of information storage media, e.g., magnetic, optical, electronic, and/or
mechanical." (¶ 0052.) We find that reference's saving of the machine-readable
information in the storage media teaches the claimed saving of some sort of data in a
memory.
"The information may include, for example, the identity of a customer, secured
information, shipping and/or billing information, the identity of at least one of the
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