Appeal 2007-1978
Application 10/185,702
address in the data request. The transfer length specifies the number of
contiguous logical blocks of data to be transferred starting from the logical
block address. (Col. 4, ll. 50-60.)
8. Bennett discloses a transmitting system that temporarily stores
transmitted messages in a queue as unacknowledged messages until they are
acknowledged or until a time-out period has elapsed. (Col. 3, ll. 45-52.)
PRINCIPLES OF LAW
1. ANTICIPATION
It is axiomatic that anticipation of a claim under § 102 can be found
only if the prior art reference discloses every element of the claim. See In re
King, 801 F.2d 1324, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 1986) and Lindemann
Maschinenfabrik GMBH v. American Hoist & Derrick Co., 730 F.2d 1452,
1458 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
In rejecting claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102, a single prior art reference
that discloses, either expressly or inherently, each limitation of a claim
invalidates that claim by anticipation. Perricone v. Medicis Pharmaceutical
Corp., 432 F.3d 1368, 1375-76 (Fed. Cir. 2005), citing Minn. Mining & Mfg.
Co. v. Johnson & Johnson Orthopaedics, Inc., 976 F.2d 1559 (Fed. Cir.
1992). Anticipation of a patent claim requires a finding that the claim at
issue “reads on” a prior art reference. Atlas Powder Co. v. IRECO, Inc., 190
F.3d 1342, 1346 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (“In other words, if granting patent
protection on the disputed claim would allow the patentee to exclude the
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