Appeal No. 96-2547
Application 08/101,673
storing operations. On the other hand, appellants' claimed
version of the order in which storing operations occur is
overall in a different order than that expressed by JVC alone.
Appellants' disclosed invention would first select the sound
signal source, store this identifying data in the memory and
then permit the user to select the sound output circuit, the
data selection of which is stored in memory and also enabling
the automatic selection of the particular sound output
circuits as well. We see no patentable distinction whether
the user starts from the source device to store data ending
with the selection of the sound output circuit or starting
with the selection of the particular sound output circuit
desired, storing it and then choosing a particular source
device as in JVC. In the context of the particulars of claim
4 on appeal, we see no patentable distinction within the
context of the collective teachings of appellants' prior art
Figure 4, its associated discussion in the specification in
view of JVC's teachings. The actuation of the memory key at
page 13 of JVC appears to us to enter data into the memory as
well as operate to "select" a particular sound output circuit
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