Appeal No. 1996-2384
Application 08/226,225
The references and rejections
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Sugita et al. (Sugita) 4,796,223 Jan. 3, 1989
Souma 5,200,944 Apr. 6, 1993
Claims 29, 30, 36, 44, and 47 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Sugita.
Claims 30-35, 37-43, 45, 46, and 48-53 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Sugita in view of
Souma.
Appellant's Grouping of the claims
Appellant's brief (at 5-6) divides the claims into the
following three groups for purposes of argument:
Group A: Claims 29, 30, 36, 44, and 47.
Group B: Claims 30-35, 37-43, 45, 46, and 48-53.
Group C: Claims 34, 35, 37, 38, 45, and 53.
We note that some claims appear in more than one group.
The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection
Sugita discloses a system that allows a personal computer
to run a program stored on a video tape recorder (abstract).
The tape (Fig. 1) includes computer programs P , P , P , etc.,1 2 3
adjacent to video sources" S , S , S , etc., which are grouped1 2 3
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