Appeal No. 95-2439
Application No. 08/080,353
recording/reproducing apparatus wherein a switch selects one
of a battery and a commercial power source. As the examiner
recognizes, Osafune fails to disclose the claimed third and
fourth modes wherein the power supply is monitored to detect a
voltage drop (or voltage increase). Therefore, the examiner
relies on Morimoto. While the examiner’s explanation of
Morimoto’s disclosure, from the bottom of page 3 to the top of
page 4 of the answer, is less than elucidating, Morimoto does
disclose monitoring to detect voltage drops and increases and
adapting to these drops and increases by prohibiting or
permitting certain functions such as read/write. The examiner
concludes that it would have been obvious to provide Osafune
with the adaptive modes of Morimoto in order to switch to the
appropriate voltage level necessary for optimal performance
and that it would have been obvious to maintain the first and
second modes of Osafune as being nonadaptive since the
omission of an element and its function, where the remaining
elements perform the same function as before, involves only
routine skill in the art.
A prima facie case for the obviousness of the subject
matter of claim 1 appears to have been made, with the examiner
setting forth the deficiencies of the individual references
and the motivating factors for combining the teachings of the
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