Appeal 2007-0993
Application 10/376,198
OPINION
Independent claim 1 recites, in pertinent part, that the customization
component "receives the modification data via populated data fields
embedded in the selected media." Independent claim 18 recites a step of
"receiving respective modification data …, the modification data populated
with selectable embedded data fields." Similarly, independent claim 21
recites the means for "receiving data relating to modifying the selected
media, the data includ[ing] one or more selectable data fields embedded in
the selected media." Thus, each of the independent claims requires data
fields embedded in the selected media.
The Examiner asserts (Answer 4) that Catona discloses in column 3,
lines 7-20, that "the customization component receives the modification data
via populated data fields embedded in the selected media." Appellants
contend (Br. 4) that Catona fails to disclose the above-noted limitation.
Specifically, Appellants contend (Br. 5) that Catona's karaoke-style mixing
system merges and/or superimposes a pre-recorded song track with a user's
vocal track. Thus, Catona does not teach or suggest modifying a song by
populating embedded data fields in the passage cited by the Examiner or
elsewhere. The Examiner responds (Answer 6-7) that Catona discloses the
media, the user's vocal track, and the song modified by the user's vocal track
being digitally recorded, that digital songs are formed of "populated data
fields embedded with information for producing or reproducing the stored
data," and that "[t]his means the media is stored as data fields embedded
with information related to the customized media to be produced when
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