Appeal No. 96-0308
Application No. 07/854,192
lines 14-16 and lines 23-27; page 3, lines 22-25; and page 10,
lines 22-25.
Kondo points out that greeting cards with read only
memories have limited usefulness and convenience. Instead, Kondo
suggests using a reusable RAM memory in a greeting card such that
the user can replace a message in RAM with a new message. Kondo
suggests including the record and playback devices both in the
same card so that the user can easily record and play back a
message. Kondo identifies as an advantage that the card can be
widely used for a variety of occasions. Column 1, lines 17-28;
and column 4, lines 12-31.
Kondo’s suggestion to replace a greeting card’s permanent
read only memory with a reusable RAM would have led one of
ordinary skill in the art to replace the read only memory in
Tarlow’s greeting card with a RAM. It would have been obvious to
include a RAM recording and playback means in Tarlow’s greeting
card so that a user could easily record and play back a message
as taught by Kondo.
Kondo describes prior greeting cards with prerecorded
messages in which the user could not record an individual
message. Kondo at column 1, lines 17-20. Tarlow requires a user
to come to a recording center to record an individual message.
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