Appeal No. 1997-3914
Application No. 08/384,457
As pointed out by our reviewing court, we must first
determine the scope of the claim. "[T]he name of the game is
the claim." In re Hiniker Co., 150 F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d
1523,1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998). In view of our discussion supra,
Gillick reads of Appellant’s claim language, therefore, we
will sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claim 9, and likewise
claims 10 through 14 which stand or fall in the same group.
Appellant argues with respect to claim 15 that Gillick
does not meet the claim requirement of the correlation
parameter being a correlation coefficient between a
probability distribution (µ ) in an acoustic model of one
i
phoneme and another probability distribution (µ ) in an
j
acoustic model of another phoneme. (Brief-page 8.)
The Examiner responds regarding claim 15, “The use of
‘probability distribution’ in acoustic models is shown in
figure 11 of Gillick. See also figures 2B, 3A and 6.”
(Answer-page 4.) Also, the Examiner points to figure 2A and
notes the that values of MU (µ) are illustrated in figure 3A.
(Answer-page 6.)
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