Appeal No. 2006-2363
Application No. 10/015,880
indefiniteness due to lack of antecedent basis. In fact, as
argued by Appellant (id.), the scope of the claims can be
ascertained by the ordinarily skilled artisan as the claimed
Asaid first predetermined schema@ clearly refers to the one and
only Afirst@ schema in claim 1. Therefore the rejection of
claims 2-4, 6-8, 12, 13, 19 and 20 under the second paragraph of
35 U.S.C. ' 112 is not sustained.
Turning now to the 35 U.S.C. ' 103 rejection of the claims,
the Examiner relies on Resnikoff for disclosing the claimed
features except for a predictable deterministic schema as the
non-uniform distribution (answer, pages 5-6). The Examiner
further relies on Balph for using linear feedback shift registers
for generating pseudorandom numbers (answer, page 6). As the
reason for combining the references, the Examiner identifies
reduction of the amount of logic by using a non-uniform
predictable deterministic distribution schema for sensor
placement (id.).
Appellant argues that one skilled in the art would not be
motivated to combine the deterministic non-linear counter of
Balph with the probabilistic Poisson disc process of Resnikoff
since the references relate to different processes based on
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