Ex Parte MATSUTSUKA - Page 7




          Appeal No. 2001-1124                                                       
          Application 08/885,468                                                     


          present application.  See page 2 of the reply brief.                       
               Upon our review of Appellant’s specification, we fail to              
          find that the Examiner has met the burden of showing that the              
          specification fails to teach to those skilled in the art how to            
          make and use the full scope of the invention without undue                 
          experimentation.  We agree with the Appellant that it would be             
          well within the skill known at the time of filing the application          
          for one of ordinary skill in the art to be able to provide the             
          necessary circuitry to modify a standard keyboard of an                    
          electronic piano so that the keys in a particular zone only                
          produce a single tone and preventing one or both keys in the               
          boundary between the adjacent zone from generating a tone.                 















               In view of the foregoing, we have not sustained the                   
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