Appeal No. 96-2547
Application 08/101,673
not completed until the user then further thirdly associates
this prestored information of the particular chosen output
circuits desired with the particular source input device or
circuit within five seconds. The implication is clear to the
reader that the data already preset by the user and then
stored by the actuation of the memory key during its blinking
state would be erased if the source device was not then
selected within the five second interval.
Appellants have offered no evidence other than their own
attorney argument at page 3 of the request for rehearing that
the ordinary skilled designer would not have designed JVC in
the manner we understand it and inferred from the teachings
expressed at page 13 of JVC. Thus, we do not agree with
appellants' assertion that the artisan would only store data
in memory at the third stop, that is when and if the source
key were depressed. We simply do not agree with this view
because the memory key is expressly taught to be pressed after
the preset output signal circuits have been selected by the
user. Though not explicitly stated in JVC, but indicated in
our earlier opinion, it appears that two storing operations
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