Appeal No. 97-2582
Application 08/484,353
Importers Int’l., Inc., 73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237,
1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 117 S.Ct. 80 (1996).
For the foregoing reasons, the rejection of claims 7 and
15-18 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Kinoshita and Taguchi cannot be sustained.
Claims 8-10 were rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kinoshita, Taguchi, and Ogawa. Claim 8
depends from claim 7 and further recites that the recording is
repeated in response to the first switching operation to
thereby continuously record successively image data in the
memory means. Claim 9 depends from claim 8 and claim 10
depends from claim 9. With regard to claim 8, the appellants
argue (Br. at 8):
While Ogawa discloses a camera that is capable of
continuous recordation or reproduction, the Ogawa
device must be switched into a recordation mode to
accomplish the continuous recordation, and switched
into a reproduction mode to accomplish the
continuous reproduction.
The feature added by claim 8, however, does not preclude
switching first between a recordation mode and a reproduction
mode. It appears that for claims 8-10 the appellants continue
to rely on the feature of putting both recording and
reproduction controls on the same push-button for patentable
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