Appeal No. 96-2748
Application 08/008,813
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We reverse the outstanding rejection of all claims on appeal
since we have concluded that the examiner has failed to set forth
a prima facie case of obviousness.
Pages 12 through 15 of the principal brief on appeal outline
the pertinent language of each respective independent claim 1,
10 and 16 on appeal that is the focus of the dispute between the
examiner and the appellants. Independent claim 1 sets forth
features relating to a record operation which are similarly
recited in independent claim 16. Correspondingly, independent
claim 10 sets forth certain reproduction features which are
also claimed in independent claim 16. Both references relied
upon teach either that the record/reproduce operations are
complementary to each other or that the transmit/receive
operations are complementary. Therefore, we focus upon the
features of representative independent claim 1 on appeal as
they relate to a recording system.
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