Appeal No. 96-3248
Application 08/022,347
limitations. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc.,
730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir.); cert.
dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W.L. Gore and Associates, Inc.
v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554, 220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed.
Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
The examiner has made an effort to read each of the
appealed claims on the disclosure of Nakano by providing a side-
by-side comparison of each of the claims and Nakano [answer,
pages 3-5]. We appreciate the examiner’s effort in this regard.
Appellants argue that Nakano does not disclose the method for
operating memories in a fuzzy logic controller in the manner
recited in the claims.
With respect to claim 9, appellants argue that it recites
that the membership functions of the logic variables in the front
preposition of each rule be stored in a respective storage
module. According to appellants, Nakano stores all membership
functions for all the logic variables in a single storage module
which does not meet the recitation of the claim [brief, page 6].
Appellants also argue that claim 9 recites that the membership
functions of the rear implication be stored in a single storage
module. According to appellants, Nakano stores the rear
implication membership functions in separate storage modules
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