Appeal No. 2001-0250 Page 4
Application No. 08/283,074
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Fredberg et al. (Fredberg) 5,882,314 Mar. 16, 1999
(filed Dec. 17,
1991)
Schroeder, Determination of the Geometry of the
Human Vocal Tract by Acoustic Measurements, 41
Journal of the Acoustical Soc'y. of America 1002-10
(1967)
Seybert et al. (Seybert), Experimental Determination
of Acoustic Properties using a Two-Microphone
Random-Excitation Technique 1362-70 (1976).1
Claims 17, 42-46, 74, 77, 78, 80, and 91 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 2, as indefinite. Claims 1-4, 6-12, 17,
20-24, 54-57, and 59-64 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101
as claiming the same invention as that of claims 1-4, 6-12,
and 16-19 of Fredberg. Claims 18 and 73 stand rejected under2
the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as
1No journal name was provided.
2Although the examiner provisionally rejected these
claims over claims 2-5, 7-13, 18-22, and 67 of Application
Serial No. 07/808,907 ('907 Application), (Examiner's Answer
at 4), the issuance of the '907 Application as the Fredberg
patent converted the provisional rejection into a non-
provisional rejection. Furthermore, claims 2-5, 7-13, and 18-
22 of the '907 Application were renumbered as claims 1-4, 6-
12, and 16-19 of Fredberg, and no claim 67 was found in the
'907 Application.
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