Appeal No. 96-1857
Application No. 08/340,435
We reverse.
Unlike the claims before us in the previous decision,
wherein the claim language could reasonably be construed to
include timers within a plurality of the audio visual
components
so long as at least one component contained a timer, the
instant claims on appeal make it clear that there is a timer
“associated with only one” of the components.
This, alone, would not be enough to distinguish over the
prior art because even a sole VCR, having a timer and
operating in conjunction with a television set, for example,
may be construed to comprise a central controller (in the
VCR), a plurality of audio video apparatus (TV and VCR)
connected to the central controller through a common bus, a
timer (in the VCR), and a remote controller (the remote
controller of the VCR) for programming the central controller,
wherein the controller controls at least one desired apparatus
to perform a desired operation (setting the VCR to tape a TV
program at a later time), in accordance with instant claim 6.
However, even such a broad interpretation as this would
fall short of meeting the instant claimed subject matter
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