Appeal No. 2001-2612 Page 2
Application No. 09/479,741
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a an educational system (claims 1-12) and to
an educational method (claims 13-20 and 22). An understanding of the invention can
be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which reads as follows:
1. An educational system for teaching individuals their
emotions, comprising:
(a) at least one set of plural faces;
(b) said set of plural faces being correlated with a respective
one and only one of a multiplicity of different emotions
experienced by individuals from time to time; and
(c) for said one and only one emotion correlated with said
one set of plural faces, a plurality of states of said respective
one and only one emotion are defined in the form of different
facial expressions on said plural faces of said one and only
one set thereof which distinguish different levels of
intensities of the respective states from one another.
The single prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting
the appealed claims is:
Frank et al. (Frank) 5,405,266 Apr. 11, 1995
Claims 1-20 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which the applicant regards as the rejection.
Claims 1-6 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Frank.
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