Appeal No. 95-1942
Application 08/135,190
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
7, 16, and 17, all of appellants' pending claims, under 35
U.S.C. § 103. We affirm the rejection with respect to claims
7 and 17 and reverse it with respect to claim 16.
The invention relates to play control in jukeboxes.
The specification includes the following description of prior
art jukeboxes, which the examiner relies on in the rejection
as admitted prior art:3
Jukeboxes typically consist of a cabinet which
contains a display of the available recordings, a
mechanism for accepting valid currency, a mechanism
for making selections from the available recordings,
a mechanism for conveying selected recordings to a
player capable of playing the recordings, some form
of control unit, and the necessary audio (or audio
and video) circuitry and output devices to publicly
perform the selected recording.
According to appellants, prior art jukeboxes provide the
customer with no way of knowing how long it will take for a
selected piece to play. Appellants' invention enables the
customer to pay extra to have his selection designated as a
priority play and inserted at the top of the play list,
provided no other pending selection is designated as a
priority play.
Claim 17, which is representative, reads as follows:
3Spec. at 1-2.
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