Appeal No. 2003-0854
Application No. 09/640,030
44-60) or are used to generate a deviation indicator for each
parameter (col. 6, lines 30-32). A comparator compares the
values of the deviation indicators and generates one or more
status indicators representative of the overall status of the
target financial security (col. 6, lines 52-57). Nevo further
discloses that the financial status indicators are displayed and
presented to a user on a display device for analysis by the user
(col. 6, lines 58-65). However, contrary to the Examiner’s
characterization (answer, page 21), the sensors of Nevo only
measure values of certain parameters to further generate their
deviation indicators without having anything to do with a
template database.
Hirotaka, on the other hand, describes a trading support
system for real-time decision making with regard to securities
trading. Although Hirotaka extracts characteristic patterns by
template matching (English abstract & translation, page 10), we
agree with Appellant that the references fails to disclose the
claimed geometric projection analysis or projection line analysis
on the extracted pattern. The only discussion of template-
matching in Hirotaka relates to the comparison between the
pattern on a “Point and Figure” (P & F) chart and a specific
template wherein the degree of coincidence of the pattern and the
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