Appeal No. 95-0833
Application 08/161,978
claim 10 on appeal “such that a tape drive sensor positioned on
either said front or said side of said data tape cartridge could
detect said second indicator opening” is a passive recitation
applicable to the passively recited tape drive.
In view of all of these considerations, it is apparent that
we must reverse the rejection of claims 10 to 13 under the
written description portion of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C.
§ 112. We reach a similar conclusion as to the enablement
rejection as well. The initial written portion of the
specification as well as the initial drawing figures 1 to 3
clearly indicate and teach to the artisan what is well-known in
the art, especially making reference to industry standard
locations for various sensing or switching elements in tape
drives for particular industry standard tape cartridges. The
other figures are discussed having different front or side switch
locations within the tape drive as well. Thus, there appears to
be no enablement question rising to the level of undue
experimentation to the artisan which would justify sustaining a
rejection regarding the location of the tape drive sensor being
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