Appeal No. 1998-0147
Application 08/446,278
lines 24-26) because "[t]he decoder can read the data at the
required slower reproduction rate by taking, e.g. only one
out of every 100 bits of information presented to it at a
time . . . ." This indicates that data is serially clocked
into the memory 100 times faster than it is reproduced. It
is unlikely that Kramer would say "[w]hen recording is
completed, which can take a very short time" (col. 4,
lines 6-7) and "the recording of sound data can be rapidly
performed in a shop" (col. 6, lines 36-37), if it took the
same amount of time to record a sound as to play it. Of
course, the Examiner could have also found a reference
showing high speed duplication of sound and video tapes as
further evidence that it was known to record at a higher
speed than the sound reproduction speed.
Kondo
Kondo does not disclose connecting the card to a
digital signal source. The Examiner baldly concludes that
it would have been obvious to modify Kondo to enable it to
have data transferred from a digital signal source, but
provides no evidence by way of reasoning or reference (EA5).
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