Appeal No. 96-0308
Application No. 07/854,192
reusably recording a vocal message. According to the Examiner,
it would have been obvious to replace Tarlow’s recording means
with Kondo’s reusable recording means because Kondo teaches that
storing vocal messages in a random access memory (RAM) allows for
greater versatility. Examiner’s Answer at 3. This is the same
means (a RAM) disclosed in Appellants’ specification.
Appellants contend that the substitution would not have been
obvious because it would destroy the intent and purpose of
Tarlow. Appeal Brief at 13.
We agree with the examiner.
Tarlow discloses a voice recording and playback module
system in which a user goes to a recording center and records a
message on a playback module for insertion into a product. The
recording center may be a booth in a store, for example. Page 2,
lines 17-30; page 6, lines 1-7. Tarlow’s system operates as
follows.
First, a user temporarily records a message in a RAM at
Tarlow’s recording center. Second, the user plays back the
message from the RAM. Third, if the user wishes to change the
message, the user re-records until satisfied with the message.
Page 2, line 30 through page 3, line 10; page 4, lines 3-12; and
page 7, lines 13-23.
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