Appeal No. 2006-2443
Application No. 10/012,968
OPINION
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984), (citing Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark
Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983)).
The examiner contends, with regard to independent claim 30,
that Kuribayashi’s clear signals, described at column 9, lines 1-
4, are equivalent to the claimed “auto-zero signals” from a panel
controller to a display panel because they reset pixels of the
display panel to a dark/white state, which, in the examiner’s
opinion, is equivalent to the claimed “bleeding off accumulated
charge in pixels of the display panel.”
Appellants argue that nothing in Kuribayashi suggests
removing any accumulated charge and the reference has nothing “to
do with auto-zero signals that bleed charge off of pixels in the
display panel” (principal brief-page 9).
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