Appeal No. 2000-0810
Application 08/699,412
based on a document’s readability score. Other than that the word “style” is used in the
term “style difficulty” which refers to what a “readability score” measures, the examiner
has not pointed to any evidence that Kucera identifies or distinguishes any style of
writing from among a plurality of writing styles. No basis has been established to
equate a readability measurement of “style difficulty” with the identification of any
distinctive language style.
“Style difficulty” refers to how hard it is for the document to be read, whatever is
the style of the language used. In Kucera’s disclosed system, what is important is how
readable a document is, not identification of the style of the language in which the
document is written. “Readability” of a document may vary depending on the style of
the language in which the document is written. Therefore, the style of a language
affects the readability of a document. However, it is evident that more than one
language style may result in the same or similar level of readability. For instance, very
long sentences, very long paragraphs, and/or absence of punctuation, etc. may result in
poor readability of a document, regardless of the language or language style. The
examiner has not presented evidence that mere “readability” measurement alone
identifies a distinctive language style. Also, in the context of these claims, it is implicit
that the source language (inclusive of styles within the same language) in which a
document is written pre-exists the creation of that document, and does not simply
spring into existence when one determines how “readable” a document may be.
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