Appeal No. 2000-1234 Page 3
Application No. 08/911,442
accommodating units for reading the recording format
information from the memo circuits;
a plurality of recording and/or reproducing
apparatus each provided for selectively recording
and/or reproducing a signal on or from the recording
medium housed in the cassette loaded therein in a
predetermined one of said recording formats;
a cassette transport mechanism for selectively
transporting said cassettes between said cassette
bins and said recording and/or reproducing apparatus
and for loading he transported cassettes into said
cassette bins or said recording and/or reproducing
apparatus in accordance with a conveyance command
signal; and
control means for recognizing the recording
format assigned to each of said cassette bins on the
basis of the stored recording format information and
for generating said conveyance command signal.
(Appeal Br. at 15.)
The prior art applied by the examiner in rejecting the
claims follows:
Kulakowski et al. (“Kulakowski”) 5,303,214 Apr. 12, 1994
(filed Jan. 3, 1992)
Sato et al. (“Sato”) 5,450,254 Sep. 12, 1995
(filed Nov. 3,
1992).
Claims 1, 4, 5, and 8-10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as obvious over Kulakowski. Claims 11, 12, 16, and
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