Appeal No. 1999-2269
Application 08/558,517
6. A record carrier in the form of a disc on which control information is
recorded, said record carrier having a diameter, said control information comprising
diameter information including an encoding of the diameter of the record carrier.
7. A record carrier as in claim 6, wherein said carrier has information tracks on
which said control information is recorded at a predetermined position.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Ando et al. (Ando) 5,432,766 July 11, 1995
Akashi 04-245061 Sept. 1, 1992
(Japanese Patent Application)1
Claims 3 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated
by Ando.
Claims 3 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Akashi.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 26) and the answer (paper number
27) for the respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
For all of the reasons expressed by the examiner (answer, pages 4 through 9), and
for the additional reasons set forth infra, we will sustain the rejections of claims 3 through 7.
Ando clearly recognizes that compact discs (CDs) have several different diameters
(column 1, lines 33 through 55), that the “type of disc is identified on the basis of a
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A copy of the translation of this reference is attached.
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