Ex parte SASAKI et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 96-3242                                                          
          Application 08/458,012                                                      


          under 35 U.S.C. § 102.  In particular, Appellants argue that                
          Miura fails to teach a disc having recorded thereon a route                 
          directory including at least positioning data of a file and                 
          length data of the file, a volume descriptor including a                    





          positioning information of a route directory and at least one               
          file name data, or that the recorded file has literature                    
          super-vising data as per claims 20, 22 and 23.  Appellants                  
          further argue that Miura fails to teaches the retrieving                    
          method steps as recited in claims 21, 24 and 25.  For example,              
          claim 21 recites the step of reading out the volume                         
          descriptor, displaying a file name according to the volume                  
          descriptor, reading out and displaying the index data of the                
          selected file using the literature supervising data and                     
          retrieving and displaying the index data of a lower layer                   
          according to the selected index data of a higher layer.                     
               On page 3 of the answer, the Examiner argues under 35                  
          U.S.C. § 102, that the claim record medium including the                    
          information content of the record medium stored thereon does                
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