Appeal No. 95-0355
Application 08/022,561
Thus, in appellants’ invention, the single demodulating
and decoding circuit demodulates and decodes a first signal,
which has already been detected by an optical detector, and a
second signal which is reproduced from the recording medium.
In contrast, there is no disclosure in Ogawa that the signals
detected by Ogawa’s photodetector circuit 10 are subsequently
demodulated and decoded by any particular circuit, let alone a
single demodulating and decoding circuit as required in claim
8. The Rijnsburger reference does not rectify this deficiency
of Ogawa. For these reasons alone, we cannot sustain the § 103
of claims 8 and 10.
The examiner’s decision rejecting appealed claims 8 and
10 is therefore reversed.
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