Appeal No. 1998-1083
Application 08/402,606
OPINION
Claims 1-4
Claim 1 is taken as representative of claims 1-4.
The Examiner finds that Ishiguro teaches "[p]oint to
point values of target positions are updated and determined
independently of previous target points" (FR2). While this
is true, as evidenced by the abstract, it is of little use
in addressing the actual claim limitations. The only
citation to the record by the Examiner is to column 6,
lines 16-23 and 57-68, which the Examiner finds to teach
"[p]ath interpolating circuit 402 interpolates teaching
point data 400 and calculates a standard path data" (EA6).
This provides little guidance as to how the Examiner reads
the claims onto Ishiguro. We assume that the claimed
"linear section to be drawn" in step (a) corresponds to a
line between two teaching-point data in the teaching-point
memory 400 and the claimed "first plurality of interpolation
points on said linear section" in step (b) corresponds to
the interpolation points. The "linear section" also
corresponds to the "standard path" in Ishiguro.
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