Appeal No. 95-0355
Application 08/022,561
& 6), but does [sic, do] not teach that the
previously formed offset information 4 is
the frame synch [sic, sync] signals. The
reference actually teaches that the offset
information 4 is the frame address
information. However, Rijnsburger discloses
in reference to figs. 3a-c that the synch
[sic, sync] signals can be previously
formed offset information, in the same
field of endeavor, for the purpose of
increasing the information capacity of the
recording medium.
It would have been obvious to one having
ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to further include the
frame synch [sic, sync] signals of Ogawa et
al. within [sic, with] the information 4
previously formed as offset information on
the recording medium, as taught by
Rijnsburger. A practitioner in the art
would have been motivated to do this in
order to further increase the information
capacity of the recording medium.
* * *
By stating that the frame sync signals
would be included within the information 4
previously formed as offset information,
the examiner was merely alleging that it
would have been obvious to additionally
form the sync signals as offset
information. [Answer, pages 2-4.]
With particular regard to the claimed step of utilizing
a single demodulating and decoding circuit to demodulate and
4
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