Appeal No. 2003-0750
Application 09/310,650
performing the recited functional limitations. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir.); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984); W.L.
Gore and Associates, Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1554,
220 USPQ 303, 313 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851
(1984).
With respect to independent claims 56 and 109, the Examiner
attempts to read the various limitations on the disclosure of
Nagao. In particular, the Examiner directs attention (final
Office action, pages 3 and 4) to the illustration in Figure 1 of
Nagao along with the accompanying description of the syntactic
analyzer 10, the dependency analyzer 20, and the construction of
knowledge base 30 appearing at columns 4-6 of Nagao.
Appellants’ arguments in response assert a failure of Nagao
to disclose every limitation in independent claims 56 and 109 as
is required to support a rejection based on anticipation. At
pages 4-6 of the Brief and pages 2-4 of the Reply Brief,
Appellants’ arguments focus on the contention that, unlike the
present claimed invention, there is no disclosure in Nagao of the
generation of a resulting semantic network of hierarchically
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