Appeal No. 96-0209
Application 07/922,501
Claim 2 depends from claim 1 and thus includes every feature
recited in claim 1, including the music information reproduction
means, the control information reproduction means, and the
control means controlling a reproduction sequence of the music
information of the music information reproduction means in
accordance with a clock signal provided from the control
information reproduction means.
We have already determined with respect to claim 1 that the
European '073 reference does not disclose a component which
controls a reproduction sequence of the music information
generated from the music information reproduction means. That
deficiency is not made up by Otsubo. According to the examiner
(answer at 3), Otsubo discloses "the presence of such sound
signals on conventional LDD Karaoke disks and multiple disk-type
selectable sound signal processing (including LDD Karaoke disks),
to provide multi-disk-type reproduction capabilities and thus
improved disk reproduction system selectability." The appellants
correctly state (Br. at 32) that Otsubo "teaches nothing
regarding controlling a reproduction sequence of the music
information of the music information reproduction means in
accordance with the clock signal." Indeed, note that the
examiner has not relied on Otsubo for that teaching.
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