Appeal No. 1998-0147
Application 08/446,278
Kondo discloses a self-contained recording and playback
device which may be used to create customized greeting
cards. Kondo does not disclose connecting the card to a
digital signal source. The Examiner concludes that it would
have been obvious to modify Kondo to enable it to have data
transferred from a digital signal source. Even assuming,
arguendo, that this is correct, the Examiner fails to
address the limitation about storing digital data according
to an address received from the digital signal source.
Accordingly, the Examiner fails to establish a prima facie
case of obviousness with respect to independent claims 1, 10
and 15. The rejection of claims 1-16 and 23-32 over Kondo
is reversed.
Claims 17-22
Claim 17 does not recite storing the digital data in
the memory card according to an address received from the
digital signal source. However, claim 17 recites "security
means for performing a selected one of the operations of
inverting at least a one-bit digital signal of the input
and/or output section of the memory in accordance with a
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