Appeal No. 96-0309
Application 08/135,370
allocated. Therefore, the disclosure does not enable one
skilled in the art to make and use the claimed invention
without undue experimentation. In addition, because
means for encoding, means for interleaving, means for
deinterleaving and decoding, and [sic] an information
signal encoded with an error detection were not disclosed
in the original disclosure, the claimed devices and coded
signal constitute NEW MATTER.
It is not clear whether the examiner is saying that the "means
for encoding," for example, is not disclosed because the
function is not disclosed or because no structure for
performing the function is disclosed. The examiner finds that
the disclosure does not show where encoding, interleaving,
deinterleaving, and decoding steps are performed. In the
response to the arguments, the examiner also states that the
disclosure does not describe what exact kind of encoding is
used (EA4-5):
[T]here are different types of codes in common use today,
block codes (such as BCH codes, Reed-Solomon codes) and
convolutional codes including Trellis coded modulation.
Each type of code has its own advantage and disadvantage;
and a specific type of code may have different circuit
designs. The specification discloses no error correction
encoder even by "functional-type block diagrams."
Clearly, the selection of a suitable encoder requires
unreasonable experimentation and delays for one skilled
in the art to carry out the invention.
The specification describes that the use of error
correction codes and time interleaving has been proposed
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