Appeal No. 95-3129
Application 07/949,290
carrying medium, wherein the apparatus provides for time-wise bar
display of said information. An understanding of the invention
can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, a copy of
which appears in the appendix to appellants’ brief.
The references of record relied upon by the examiner in
support of the rejections are:
Utsugi et al. (Utsugi) 5,010,437 Apr. 23, 1991
Tomoda et al. (Tomoda) 0 306 909 Mar. 15, 1989
(European Patent Application)
Claims 1-7, 10, 11 and 13-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Tomoda.
Claims 8, 9 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Tomoda in view of Utsugi.
The full text of the examiner’s rejections and response to
the argument presented by appellants appears in the answer (Paper
No. 13). The complete statement of appellants’ argument can be
found in the Brief (Paper No. 12).
Tomoda pertains to a compact disc player having a display
for displaying the information contained on the disc in a form
representative of how one would desire the information to be
recorded on a tape by a tape recorder attached to the Tomoda
device. To this end, the Tomoda device includes, see Figure 3, a
display 24 comprising an “A plane indicator” representative of
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