Appeal No. 2006-2070
Application No. 09/986,586
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-3, 13-15 and 19-21 over Ohnuma in view of Final
Fantasy VIII, and claims 4, 5, 16, 17, 22 and 23 over Ohnuma in
view of Final Fantasy VIII and Kondo.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 1, 13 and 19.
Each of these claims requires 1) comparing an amount of damage
inflicted on an enemy character by a player character,
immediately before the player character defeats the enemy
character, with a threshold value previously set for the enemy
character, 2) changing a parameter stored in a storage device
according to a first condition when the enemy is defeated by an
amount of damage that is less than the threshold value, and
3) changing the parameter stored in the storage device according
to a second condition that is different from the first condition
when the enemy is defeated by an amount of damage that is at
least the threshold value.
Ohnuma discloses an entertainment system that permits a user
“to input specific manipulation data via the manual controller
(for example, the user can input manipulation data by pressing
therein by the appellant. Since these two versions appear to describe the
same video game, we have considered both of them.
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