Appeal No. 96-0308
Application No. 07/854,192
Kondo’s suggestion to include a RAM recording and playback means
in a greeting card so that a user can easily record a message is
applicable to Tarlow’s greeting card. From the collective
teachings of Kondo and Tarlow one skilled in the art would have
recognized as an advantage that a user would not have to come to
a recording center if a RAM recording and playback means were
included in Tarlow’s greeting card.
As Appellants point out, Tarlow desires to permanently
preserve a vocal message. Tarlow states that “[t]he recording
would have to be of a permanent nature in order to preserve the
quality and fidelity of a dear relative’s voice.” Page 2, lines
14-16. Nonetheless, Kondo taught advantages to recording a
greeting card message in a temporary memory (a RAM) instead of a
permanent memory. When the collective teachings of the cited art
are viewed as whole, they suggest the claimed subject matter.
Thus, we will sustain this rejection.
Claims 19-21
Claims 19-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Kondo in view of Tarlow.
The examiner finds that Kondo teaches the claimed invention
except for releasibly securing Kondo’s card to products, and that
Tarlow teaches releasibly attaching a playback module to a
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