Appeal No. 2000-1958
Application No. 08/854,620
and that a reference database may comprise spectral line data of
various elements “in different compound forms,” then there might
be a reason to combine since the skilled artisan would have been
taught that a reference database may comprise spectral line data
of not only various elements but also of such elements in a
compound form and the artisan would have been taught to compare a
measured spectral line data including chemical shifts with such
reference data. However, Meyer does not appear to teach or
suggest this much.
The examiner points to the abstract, column 18, lines 58-68,
and column 19, lines 1-15, of Meyer for a suggestion of storing
chemical shifts for reference purposes. However, our review of
these identified portions of Meyer does not find what the
examiner alleges is to be found. The abstract indicates that a
network is trained, according to a predetermined training
process, to identify particular materials, but the abstract does
not indicate any database of reference spectral line data of
various elements in different compound forms and a comparison,
with that reference spectral line data including chemical shifts,
of a measured spectral line data.
Column 18, lines 58-68, relates to enhancing performance of
a neural network’s tolerance to spectral data variations by
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