Appeal No. 2000-0580
Application No. 09/025,347
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a phonics training system adapted to teach pre-school
children having a limited vocabulary of words how to spell and read those words. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is
reproduced in the opinion section of this decision.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Corder 5,302,132 Apr. 12, 1994
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 and 4-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Corder.
Reference is made to the brief and reply brief (Paper Nos. 15 and 17) and the final
rejection, first and second advisory actions and answer (Paper Nos. 6, 8, 10 and 16) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the merits of this rejection.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to the
appellant's specification and claims, to the applied Corder reference, and to the respective
positions articulated by the appellant and the examiner. For the reasons which follow, we
cannot sustain the examiner's rejection.
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