Appeal No. 96-2864
Application 08/048,503
a single prior art reference discloses, expressly or under
principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed
invention. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730
F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
In the present case, independent claim 1 recites a voice
recording and reproducing apparatus comprising, inter alia, input
means for receiving a sentence end reproduction indication signal
and control means for controlling the recording and reproducing
means so as to reproduce a predetermined length of the recorded
audio signal representing a terminating portion of one of the
sentences in response to the sentence end reproduction indication
signal. Independent claim 7 recites a voice recording and
reproducing apparatus comprising, inter alia, input means for
receiving a recording and reproducing mode indication signal and
control means responsive to said recording and reproducing mode
indication signal for controlling a repetitive sequence of the
reproducing of a first audio signal and the recording and
reproducing of a second audio signal by the recording and
reproducing means with each repetition of the repetitive sequence
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