Appeal No. 1997-3914
Application No. 08/384,457
groups. Group I includes claims 9 through 14, and we will
treat claim 9 as the representative claim. Group II includes
claim 15.
With respect to claim 9, the Examiner reasons that
Gillick teaches everything claimed except, “said sets contain
data representing more than one sound”. However, the Examiner
explains, Gillick teaches that cluster spellings are used for
words, and it is well known in the art that words contain
multiple sounds. The Examiner points to Figures 9 and 10 of
Gillick as illustrating that words are made up of multiple
sounds linked together. Therefore, the Examiner states, it
would have been obvious for a person having ordinary skill in
the pertinent art, at the time the invention was made, that
Gillick teaches that his words are organized sets of sounds.
(Answer-pages 3 and 4.)
The Appellant argues that the cluster spellings of
Gillick do not represent generated speech recognition
reference pattern data where one set of reference pattern data
is generated for each of a plurality of existing speakers,
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