Appeal No. 96-0308
Application No. 07/854,192
variety of products. According to the examiner, it would have
been obvious to use Kondo’s card on a variety of products.
Examiner’s Answer at 4.
Appellants argue that using Kondo’s card on a variety of
products does not equate to a reusable, recordable product label.
Appeal Brief at 19, lines 9-10.
We agree with Appellants.
Claim 19 recites a number of steps relating to reusing a
recordable product label. In the first four steps, a label
bearing a recorder is secured to a first product, a message
concerning the first product is recorded in the label, and the
message is played. In the fifth step, the label is released from
the first product and attached to a second product. In the sixth
and seventh steps, the first message is erased and a message
regarding the second product is recorded. In the eighth step,
the second message is played.
Tarlow teaches securing a playback module to a variety of
products. Page 3, line 33, through page 4, line 2. However,
Kondo wires a recordable label into each greeting card, so there
is no need to reuse the label in a different card. The examiner
identifies no rationale for removing Kondo’s label from one card
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