Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
Issue B: Claims 1-7
Claims 1-6
Initially, we must interpret what is meant by "text
domain" with a view to determining whether Sklarew's
handwritten characters can be a "source text domain" and
Sklarew's computer text font symbols can be a "destination
text domain."
The specification defines "text domain" in one place as
follows (specification, page 4, lines 5-7): "The 'text
domain' referred to herein may be a particular 'character set'
such as the Greek or Roman alphabets, or the Kanji
characters." The specification also states (specification,
page 13, lines 21-26):
As used herein, the phrase "text domain" refers to a
group of textual elements associated with a single
language. The textual elements may be character sets or
word lists used in a language. A word list may be
provided as a dictionary or collection of dictionaries of
words belonging to a particular language. A character
set is a collection of characters that are used together
in a language, as in the example of an alphabet.
These definitions do not require the language or alphabet
associated with the source group of textual elements be
different from the language or alphabet associated with the
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