Appeal No. 95-4187
Application 07/835,374
and/or changing the element knowledge in accordance with the
contents of the harmonizing knowledge. Appellants argue that
Tsuruta teaches that a strategy is selected in accordance with
the contents of an actor instead of using independent objects
representing harmonizing knowledge. In addition, Appellants
argue that Tsuruta does not teach changing the element
knowledge in accordance with the contents of the harmonizing
knowledge.
The Examiner points to Tsuruta's teachings on page
492 and specifically steps 1-3. The Examiner points out that
Tsuruta teaches that a strategy is selected in accordance with
the knowledge contents of an actor. The Examiner argues that
the Tsuruta strategy reads on Appellants' claimed "element
knowledge" and the Tsuruta knowledge contents of the actor
reads on Appel- lants' claimed "harmonizing knowledge."
In the reply brief, Appellants state that they fail
to find any teaching in the steps 1-3 taught by Tsuruta that
the contents of an actor includes harmonizing knowledge.
Appellants argue that the selection is not described as being
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