Appeal No. 1998-0147
Application 08/446,278
Before BARRETT, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-32 and 46-52.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention, as illustrated in figure 67,
relates to a digital information system having a digital
signal source 100 in the form of an information vending
machine for vending information in the form of digital data
as a commodity for sale, and a memory card (player) 101
having a memory for storing the data and playback circuitry
for replaying the data to a headphone. The memory in the
memory card may be built-in or it may be separable as shown
in figure 67; the claims have been amended to limit them to
the built-in memory.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A digital information system comprising a
digital signal source; and a memory card, having a
playback function, removably connected with the digital
signal source to store digital data received from said
digital signal source and to reproduce the digital data
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