Appeal No. 96-2864 Application 08/048,503 a single prior art reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In the present case, independent claim 1 recites a voice recording and reproducing apparatus comprising, inter alia, input means for receiving a sentence end reproduction indication signal and control means for controlling the recording and reproducing means so as to reproduce a predetermined length of the recorded audio signal representing a terminating portion of one of the sentences in response to the sentence end reproduction indication signal. Independent claim 7 recites a voice recording and reproducing apparatus comprising, inter alia, input means for receiving a recording and reproducing mode indication signal and control means responsive to said recording and reproducing mode indication signal for controlling a repetitive sequence of the reproducing of a first audio signal and the recording and reproducing of a second audio signal by the recording and reproducing means with each repetition of the repetitive sequence -5-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007