Appeal No. 2004-0963
Application No. 09/384,088
phrases.
Thus, even if Tateno and Halstead were properly combined within
35 U.S.C. § 103, we agree with appellants’ basic urgings in the brief that
the feature of evaluating a search string by comparing each of the
characters in the search string to a plurality of predetermined candidate
character sets cannot be met according to the combined teachings and
showings of Tateno and Halstead irrespective of the examiner’s urgings in
the answer otherwise.
Dependent claims 3, 11, 19 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 with the addition of Houchin. Again, the rejection of these
dependent claims must be reversed for similar reasons as their parent
independent claims as just stated in this opinion. For corresponding
reasons, since Houchin clearly only focuses upon key word or phrase
matching operations and does not aid the artisan in coming to grips with
the claimed features of comparing each of the individual characters of a
search string to a plurality of predetermined candidate character sets as
necessary even for the independent claims 1, 9, 17 and 25 on appeal.
As a final matter in considering the last stated rejection of claims 37
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