Appeal No. 96-0809
Application 08/197,677
appellants make the same arguments discussed above with
respect to claim 1 as well as additional arguments that the
recording and reproducing means of claim 6 and the controller
means of claim
10 are not disclosed by Ando [brief, pages 21-25]. The
examiner responds that the input means and
recording/reproducing means are inherent in Ando [answer, page
7]. Although we agree that Ando inherently records and
reproduces data, Ando does not suggest recording or
reproducing a jump command in the editing infor-mation area of
an information block as recited in the claimed invention.
Therefore, we do not sustain the rejection of claims 6-8 and
10-13 as anticipated by Ando.
3. The rejection of claims 1-5 and 15
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by or, in the alternative,
under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Ando.
For purposes of this rejection, the examiner has
determined that the information content of the recording
medium is not entitled to patentable weight because the
information content is not functionally related to the record
medium structure. Thus, the examiner asserts that the
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