Appeal No. 1998-2518
Application No. 08/442,835
by appellant and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 6,
8, and 10.
Claim 6, the only pending independent claim, requires a
control signal recording track for recording position
information, the position information including program start
information identifying a beginning location of a program
recorded on a recording medium. Claim 6 further requires a
control means for controlling an erase head means to stop
erasing and a program recording means to stop recording when
the control head means reads position data from the recording
medium that indicates that the beginning of a recorded
program.
The examiner admits (Answer, page 4) that Kosaka does not
disclose a control track with program start position
information and, therefore, also lacks the control of the
erase head and program recording based on the program start
position information. Lewis, according to the examiner
(Answer, page 4) discloses start markers stored in a database
management field on a tape to indicate the beginning of a
program. These markers allow a user to quickly locate the
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