Appeal No. 2001-1390
Application No. 08/922,599
Appellants' invention pertains to a method for determining
forced-choice preference information. A basic understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
a correct copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 22).
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the
document specified below:
David R. Peryam and Francis J. Pilgrim (Peryam), "Hedonic Scale
Method of Measuring Food Preferences," Food Technology, Vol. XI,
No. 9, pages 9 through 14 (1957)2
The following rejection is before us for review.
Claims 1 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over the Peryam reference.
2 The document of record, with pagination 1 through 6, is a
reprint of the specified article from Food Technology. While the
examiner has referred to pages 1 and 2 of this document in the
answer (page 3), the final rejection refers also to page 6,
indicating to us that the entirety of the document (pages 1
through 6) was the applied evidence. We refer to the content of
the applied reference by pages 1 through 6.
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