Appeal No. 2001-1124
Application 08/885,468
containing two or more adjacent keys per zone;
allocating a tone to each of the zones successively to form a
music scale by the zones; and preventing one or both keys in the
boundary between adjacent zones from generating a tone.
References
The Examiner has not relied on any references for the
rejection.
Rejection at Issue
Claims 10 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as containing subject matter which was not described
in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in
the art to which it pertains to make and/or use the invention.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the
Examiner, we make reference to the briefs1 and the answer2 for
the respective details thereof.
1 Appellant filed an appeal brief on September 1, 2000.
Appellant filed a reply brief on November 20, 2000. The Examiner
mailed an office communication on November 29, 2000, stating that
the reply brief filed on November 20, 2000, has been entered and
considered.
2 The Examiner mailed an Examiner’s answer on September 29,
2000. In response to, an order Remanding to Examiner mailed
August 15, 2002, the Examiner mailed a corrected Examiner’s
answer on August 27, 2002. We will refer to this corrected
Examiner’s answer as simply the answer.
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