Ex parte HAMPSHIRE et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 95-4227                                                          
          Application 08/060,858                                                      

          servo head, Satoh also shifts the home cylinder for the data                
          heads. Column 6, lines 29-66.                                               
                    Therefore Satoh does not relate to the recited step of            
          selecting an optimum track “wherein the optimum track is                    
          displaced from the servo track in the cylinder containing the               
          selected data track by a track offset comprising a predetermined            
          number of track spacings that will compensate for misalignment              
          between the selected data head and the servo head.”  The                    
          secondary reference to Kenny does nothing to compensate for that            
          shortcoming of Satoh.                                                       
                                     CONCLUSION                                       
                    The rejection of Claims 1-5 is not sustained.                     
                                      REVERSED                                        



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