Appeal No. 1999-0419
Application 08/383,483
appeal. Since Citizen is limited to video discs of still images, the complementary
teachings of video tape-recording in Kozuki would have been an obvious enhancement
to the combination for recording a series of discrete images as normally done from
broadcast television on video tape recorders anyway.
As to the addition of Hurwitz and Nakajima to Kozuki and Citizen, these two
references are merely cumulative to the combination of Kozuki and Citizen as to claim
2. Many of the arguments presented at pages 21-23 of the principal brief on appeal as
to claim 2 therefore are not pertinent since there is no need to rely on the specific
teachings and suggestions of Hurwitz and Nakajima as to the ability of their cameras to
broadcast video signals for recording by a video recording device as taught by these
references since such a feature is not recited in claim 2. It appears to us that the
teaching value of Citizen has not been fully appreciated by appellants in accordance
with these arguments.
The examiner adds Bellman to the combination of the four basic references to
further reject claim 13. In accordance with the Figures 1-3 and 6A teachings, this
reference indicates that it was known in the art to transmit by radio frequency
transmissions video and audio information from plural remote sources to a common
ground monitoring receiver as element 400 in Figure 1 to be recorded in a common
video cassette recorder 486 by selectively switching therebetween. These features
would have been an obvious enhancement to the Citizen-Kozuki combination.
Moreover, since the basic rejection relies on Kozuki, Citizen, Hurwitz and Nakajima,
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