Appeal No. 1998-1540
Application No. 08/317,390
Representative independent claim 4 is reproduced as follows:
4. A disk player comprising:
signal processor means for processing a reproduced signal
obtained from a disk, detecting a speed difference between the
rotation speed of the disk and a desired rotation speed thereof, and
outputting a speed control signal corresponding to the detected
speed difference;
oscillator means for supplying an oscillation output as a
system clock signal to said signal processor means; and
speed control means for detecting the phase difference
between said oscillation output and a reference clock signal, and
controlling the rotation speed of the disk in accordance with the
detected phase difference.
No references are relied upon.
Claims 4, 7 and 11-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first and second
paragraphs as, respectively, being based on a nonenabling disclosure and being
indefinite.
A rejection of claims 1, 9 and 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) is now moot in view of
appellants’ cancellation of claims 1, 9 and 10.
Thus, we have before us only the rejections based on 35 U.S.C. § 112, first and
second paragraphs.
Reference is made to the brief (Paper No. 35) and answer (Paper No. 31) for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
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