Appeal No. 96-2864
Application 08/048,503
20, line 40). The AudioWrite function requires a student to
listen to and type an audio text (see column 6, lines 22 through
30; column 10, line 61 through column 11, line 40; and column 16,
line 42 through column 17, line 58). The AudioLab function
allows a student to listen to an audio text, and to record and
play back his or her restatement of the text (see column 5, line
47 through column 6, line 6; column 9, line 1 through column 10,
line 60; and column 13, line 5 through column 16, line 42).
The examiner’s explanation of the rejections on appeal
indicates that they are based on the AudioLab configuration of
the Willetts system. As explained by Willetts, the student
separately implements each of the various steps in the AudioLab
function, i.e., the selection of an audio text, the playing of a
selected text, the recording of the student’s restatement of a
text and the play back of the recorded restatement, in whatever
order desired by pressing specified keys on the keyboard input
device 54.
With regard to the standing 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of
claims 1 through 8 and 13, anticipation is established only when
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