Appeal No. 2006-2070
Application No. 09/986,586
With respect to Final Fantasy VIII the examiner argues that
the SeeD ranking corresponds to the appellants’ parameter
assigned to the player, and that the SeeD ranking is changed
based upon how well the player has done against a threshold value
which the examiner apparently considers to be the difference
between the actual and estimated times for winning the battle
(answer, page 5).
The appellants argue that Final Fantasy VIII compares the
time required to reach the end of the cavern and defeat the Boss
to the time estimated by the player for completing that entire
event and, therefore, does not compare the time taken to defeat
the Boss with a threshold value (brief, page 13). The appellants
also argue that the reward does not vary based upon the amount of
damage measured when the enemy is defeated but, rather, is a
standard reward (reply brief, page 5).
The appellants are correct that Final Fantasy VIII bases the
reward on a time difference rather than on how much damage the
player has inflicted upon the enemy immediately before the player
defeats the enemy.
The examiner argues that one of ordinary skill in the art
would understand that although Final Fantasy VIII relates the
parameter to time, one of ordinary skill in the art would realize
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