Appeal No. 1997-1665 Page 11
Application No. 08/289,134
27-33, which issued as U.S. Patent 5,367,453 (Beernink). The
incorporated disclosure "includes the steps of: a) receiving a
handwritten stroke; b) normalizing the stroke; c) matching the
normalized stroke against a stroke database to obtain at least
one character part interpretation; and d) recognizing a
handwritten object using one or more of the character part
interpretations." Beernink, col. 2, ll. 45-49 (copy
attached). We are persuaded that these teaching would have
suggested the limitations of "means for detecting ...; means
for comparing ...."
Second, the appellants argue, "Capps ... certainly fails
to teach 'means for determining' the result of any such
comparison." (Appeal Br. at 13.) Representative claim 1
specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "means
for determining that said operation is a gesture when said
feature portion of said coordinate data is similar to the
feature portion of said gesture based on a comparison with a
predetermined level of similarity ...." Giving the claim its
broadest reasonable interpretation, the limitations recite
determining that an operation is a gesture based on similarity
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