Appeal No. 1997-3977
Application No. 08/267,579
Roth et al. (Roth) 5,212,678 May 18,
1993
(filed June 09, 1992)
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Roth in view of Wakabayashi.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 23,
mailed February 27, 1997) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants'
Brief (Paper No. 22, filed November 12, 1996) for appellants'
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 15.
The only limitation in dispute is a display means for
providing a graphic representation of an amount of digital
data stored in the memory, which is recited in each of the
four independent claims. Accordingly, we will limit our
discussion to the obviousness of including such a display
means in the recording and reproducing system of Roth.
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