Appeal No. 1997-3793
Application 08/294,235
Appellant argues that Hata does not disclose an input
signal raised to an exponential power of one of the gating
functions g , wherein the gating function g is greater than 1.i i
These limitations are found in all the independent claims.
The Examiner finds (FR2) that Hata discloses an input
raised to a power at page 32, section 4, line 5 ("1. literal:
x ..."), and equations (13) and (14). The Examiner furtherS
finds (EA7) that "x " at page 33, second column, line 14,12
shows x raised to the power of 2.
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Appellant responds that the notation in Hata, while using
superscripts which could be easily confused with
exponentiation, has nothing to do with exponentiation (Br3-5;
RBr2-3).
Appellant is clearly correct. The term x is called aij
"literal" of input variable x, where a literal is a
propositional variable or its negation. For an r-valued
n-variable function F(X), X={x ,x ,...,x } is the set of
1 2 n
n-variables, where x takes on values from R={0,1,...,r-1}
i
(page 32, section 4). The term x refers to input variable xj
i i
having the value j from the r values of set R, not x to the
i
jth power. Since each input x can have one of r values,
i
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