Appeal No. 2000-1958
Application No. 08/854,620
the teaching by Meyer of considering chemical shifts when
determining the presence of an element in a sample, would have
led the artisan to consider such chemical shifts in the Robbat
system when analyzing samples which may contain compound forms of
a particular element.
The problem with the combination, as we see it, is that
Meyer is directed to training a neural network to analyze organic
materials using spectral data and, although Meyer mentions
“chemical shifts” (e.g., column 18, lines 62 and 66), it is not
at all clear that Meyer is storing measured spectral line data,
including such chemical shifts, obtained from a sample and/or
whether Meyer is comparing a reference spectral line data,
including such chemical shifts, with the measured spectral line
data in order to identify elements in the sample.
While Robbat teaches the measurement of spectral line data
for elements, the storage of reference spectral line data of
various elements and the comparison of the measured data with the
reference data in order to identify an element in a sample, it
lacks the measured spectral line data including chemical shifts
and the storage of reference spectral line data of various
elements “in different compound forms.” If Meyer clearly taught
or suggested that spectral line data may include chemical shifts
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