Appeal No. 96-2864
Application 08/048,503
appeal as to claims 9, 10, 14 and 15 is hereby dismissed, leaving
for review the standing rejections of claims 1 through 8 and 11
through 13.
The invention pertains to a voice recording and reproducing
apparatus designed to function as an interactive language
learning device. A copy of the claims involved in the appeal is
appended to the appellant’s main brief (Paper No. 14).
The reference relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness is:
Willetts 5,010,495 Apr. 23, 1991
Claims 1 through 8 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Willetts, and claims 11 and 12
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Willetts.
Reference is made to the appellant’s main and reply briefs
(Paper Nos. 14 and 16) and to the examiner’s main and
supplemental answers (Paper Nos. 15 and 18) for the respective
positions of the appellant and the examiner with regard to the
merits of these rejections.
Willetts discloses “a computerized interactive language
learning system which provides visual text displays and
associated digitized audio speech” (column 1, lines 7 through 9).
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