Appeal No. 2006-2648 Page 7
Application No. 09/788,387
1701 (Fed. Cir. 1995) (quoting In re LeGrice, 301 F.2d 929, 936, 133 USPQ 365, 372
(CCPA 1962)).
Of course, anticipation "is not an 'ipsissimis verbis' test." In re Bond, 910 F.2d
831, 832, 15 USPQ2d 1566, 1567 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (citing Akzo N.V. v. United States
Int'l Trade Comm'n, 808 F.2d 1471, 1479 & n.11, 1 USPQ2d 1241, 1245 & n.11 (Fed.
Cir. 1986)). "An anticipatory reference . . . need not duplicate word for word what is in
the claims." Standard Havens Prods. v. Gencor Indus., 953 F2d 1360, 1369, 21
USPQ2d 1321, 1328 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
Here, Sato's "FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of an image
sensing apparatus, i.e., a digital camera. . . ." (Col. 3, ll. 19-20.) "Reference
numeral [9] denotes . . . . a display section for displaying image data on an LCD or the
like. . . ." (Id. at ll. 39-42.) "Referring to FIG. 2, reference numeral 100 denotes an
actual entire display screen of the display section 9, which is constituted by, e.g., an
LCD; 101, a main image display portion as a window at the center of the screen, on
which a photographing preview image is mainly displayed; and 102 to 113, a plurality of
subwindows at the peripheral portion of the screen, on which photographed viewing
thumbnail images are displayed in time series." (Col. 4, ll. 32-40.) "When the initial
position of the viewing thumbnail image display is set at, e.g., the subwindow 102, the
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