Appeal No. 1998-0629
Application 08/234,525
OPINION
The Examiner contends that Appellants seek to obtain
protection for an "old and well-known scheme [for character
recognition] . . . by presenting a number of extraordinarily
detailed recitations of old and obvious elements, and by
presenting a multiplicity of names for the same basic elements
of the system" (EA3). However, it is clear to us from a
thorough study of Wilber that Appellants' disclosed invention
is not taught or suggested by Wilber. The only question is
whether the claims are so broad that they read on Wilber.
Claims 16 and 37
Appellants argue (Br13) that Wilber, at the very least,
contains no disclosure of "determining from said set of
attribute values a selected value to be used as an attribute
value standard" and "generating for said sequence of
characters a set of normalized attribute values using said set
of attribute values and said attribute value standard." As
disclosed, the "attribute value standard" is the value
corresponding to the location of the peak of the frequency
distribution curve. Claim 16 does not recite how the standard
is determined from the set of attribute values. As disclosed,
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