Ex parte BONISSONE et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 96-0361                                                          
          Application 08/288,154                                                      

          position and to the Brief (Paper No. 18) (pages referred to as              
          "Br__") for appellants' position.                                           
                                       OPINION                                        
          Claims 1-9 and 32                                                           
               Appellants argue (Br9-10; Br14-15) that Basehore does not              
          disclose the look-up table limitation of claims 1 and 32.                   
          Claim 1 recites:                                                            
                    a memory having a look-up table stored therein at a               
               plurality of memory locations, the look-up table being a               
               compilation of values derived from executing a fuzzy                   
               logic rule base for the sensed state variables, such that              
               each of said plurality of memory locations stores a value              
               representative of an output derived from an operation of               
               the fuzzy logic rule base . . . .                                      
          The look-up table limitation in claim 32 is essentially                     
          identical except that it recites "the plurality" in the third               
          from last line quoted above.  Appellants argue that "Basehore               
          does not disclose a memory having a look-up table having a                  
          compilation of values derived from executing a fuzzy logic                  
          rule base for the sensed state variables, wherein each of the               
          look-up table locations stores a value representative of an                 
          output derived from an operation of the fuzzy logic rule base"              
          (emphasis omitted) (Br9-10; Br14).                                          



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