Appeal No. 1998-2493
Application No. 08/658,120
line 65 through column 10, line 2 of Hamachi for a showing of this limitation. Appellants
contend that Hamachi merely senses whether the door is not closed and, if it is not closed,
a cassette loading instruction is invalidated. It is further argued, in distinction, that the
instant invention recites that if it is detected that the door is not open during the
transportation of the disk or when the disk is at the inserting slot, the disk is immediately
loaded into the apparatus. In the reply brief, appellants stress that the instant invention is
directed to operations performed after the start of the ejection operation whereas Hamachi
is silent about control operations subsequent to the start of the ejection operation.
We recognize that the instant disclosed invention differs from that of Hamachi.
However, it is our view that appellants are reading the limitations of instant claim 1
much too narrowly. The argued limitation of the instant invention, as claimed, is clearly met
by Hamachi during the situation when the door is closed (this state of the door
being detected) and the cassette is loaded into the player. Claim 1 recites that the
recording medium is loaded into the player when it is detected that the door is not open,
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