Appeal No. 96-0209
Application 07/922,501
Accordingly, on the examiner's rationale, the European '073
reference and Otsubo would not have rendered obvious the subject
matter of claim 2.
The rejection of claims 3, 5, 7
and 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over the
European reference and Yoshio
Claim 3 depends from claim 1. Claim 5 depends from claim 4.
Claim 7 depends from claim 6. Claim 9 depends from claim 8. The
dependent claims include all of the recited features of the
claims from which they depend, 35 U.S.C. § 112, 4th paragraph.
Additionally, they recite that the control information decoded by
the control information reproduction means includes lyrics data,
control data for an external musical instrument, and retrieval
data having names of songs, names of singers, names of lyrics
writers, names of composers and genres of songs.
According to the examiner (answer at 4), the European '073
reference discloses all of the features of independent claims 1,
4, 6 and 8, but not the additional features recited in the
dependent claims concerning the control information's having
lyrics data and retrieval data including names of composers.
Yoshio is relied on by the examiner to meet the additional
features of the dependent claims.
We have already determined and explained above that the
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