Appeal No. 1998-2718
Application No. 08/373,937
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse all of the rejections of record.
Turning first to the 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of
claims 14, 18, 19, 22 and 25, the examiner is of the opinion
(answer,
page 5) that each of the neural networks (i.e., NET 0 through
NET 9) in Fukumizu (Figure 1) has “a first input terminal
coupled to receive a first feature vector of a character and a
second feature vector of a character (col. 3, lines 44-57 and
fig. 1, element 10).” Appellant argues (brief, page 10; reply
brief, page 4) that each of the neural networks NET 0 through
NET 9 in Fukumizu is configured to receive “one and only one
feature vector at a time.”
Inasmuch as Fukumizu clearly teaches (Abstract; column 2,
line 39; column 3, line 48; column 9, line 61; column 10, line
33; column 11, lines 7 and 54; column 12, line 34; and column
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