Appeal No. 95-0833
Application 08/161,978
the preferred area is the other portion of
the recess 100, as that is the location of
the file protect device in presently used
cartridges (emphasis added).
Again, it would have been perhaps better stated that the location
of prior art industry standard cartridges would have utilized the
so-called other portion of the recess 100 in a manner to be
consistent with that initially described in location area 100 of
Fig. 3.
Our assessment of these teachings and showings of the
specification and drawings as originally filed is consistent with
appellants’ comments made at the bottom of page 8 of the
principal Brief on appeal that the claimed data cartridge having
two detectable openings comprise the first opening being recess
100 at the left side thereof as shown in Fig. 6 and the second
opening being the right side of the same recess opening 100 also
depicted in Fig. 6. Since the industry standard location of the
first indicator opening in clause a of claim 10 on appeal is
write-protected and permanently open, a portion of region 100 of
necessity would comprise this first indicator opening. The
description at page 11, lines 14 through 18, quoted above,
indicates that the preferred area for the write protection for
previously used cartridge is the “other” or left portion of the
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