Appeal No. 1997-3909
Application 08/430,090
relevant to said aspect;
the improvement comprising:
(d) means under user control for selectively causing
the message reproducing means to render said selected help
message at at least a first normal velocity or at a second
faster velocity, said second velocity being faster than said
first velocity to enable said user to quickly reach the part
of said selected help message that may be of particular help
in operating the functionality means.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as
follows:
Yabuuchi EP 0 402 911 Dec. 19, 1990
Appellant’s Admitted Prior Art (APA)
Claims 10 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over the APA in view of
Yabuuchi . 1
Claims 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Yabuuchi . 2
1This is indicated as a new ground of rejection in the
Examiner’s Answer, paper no. 28. However, it is the same as
that made in the Final Rejection, paper no. 21, with the
omission of claims 16 and 17.
2This is indicated as a new ground of rejection in the
Examiner’s Answer, paper no. 28. It differs from that made in
the Final Rejection, paper no. 21, in that the APA is no
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