Appeal No. 1996-3600
Application 08/284,371
automatically records programs by entering data into the
system individually for channel, date, time of day and program
length. The examiner notes that Beyers does not teach that
the coded data is compressed, that a decoder is used to expand
the coded information, and that the compressed codes are
entered into the system as recited in claims 106 and 142
[answer, pages 4-7]. Welles teaches a universal remote
control which can learn the commands of other remote controls.
After the universal remote control of Welles learns the
commands of another remote control, the learned commands are
stored in memory in a compressed form to save memory space.
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
substitute the universal remote control of Welles for the
Beyers remote control to gain the advantage of reducing the
number of remote control units as taught by Welles [id., pages
7-9].
Appellants’ first argument is that Beyers fails to
disclose either of the elements or steps of independent claims
106 and 142. Beyers teaches a conventional on-screen remote
control unit for a video recorder in which channel, date, time
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