Appeal No. 1999-2020
Application D-29/058,031
CDs. Much of what is conventional in prior art CDs is also
discussed in Benne. Generally speaking, prior art optical
disks are primarily opaque and non-reflective when viewed from
the printed top side, and opaque and reflective when viewed
from below. This opaqueness and reflectiveness on the
respective sides in most prior art CDs generally extends
substantially the full radial extent or the diameter of the
CD.
Whereas a relatively narrow, approximately three
millimeter, extreme outer annular region of a conventional CD
is unmetallized and transparent, the present claimed invention
presents a relatively wide annular transparent region of the
overall disk in its outer radial region. As discussed in the
paragraph bridging pages 3 and 4 of the brief, the present
invention relates to disks of relatively short music or
information duration that
can be accommodated on a full diameter disk rather than on a
relatively narrower diameter disk in which the prior art also
presents pre-recorded singles or the like. Thus, it is
apparent that the appellants have used a conventional diameter
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