Appeal No. 97-1398
Application 08/295,225
In the new grounds of rejection given in the Answer, the
prior art was applied against the claims as follows:
• claims 2-6, 11-14, 17, 28, 30-32, 35, 38, 40, and 41 -
Fujimura in view of Sasaki;
• claims 7 and 8 - Fujimura in view of Sasaki and Nelson;
• claims 9, 10, 17, and 39 - Fujimura in view of Sasaki,
Nagoaka, and Kubota.
A. The rejections based on Sasaki and Siddiq
Sasaki discloses a cassette-mounted tape consisting of a
magnetic recording tape 1 (having a magnetic recording layer 2
thereon) attached by an adhesive tape 6 to a leader tape 3, which
performs the cleaning operation. While the type of information
to be recorded is not specified, it is apparent from the
structure of the cassette (Fig. 2) that the cassette is of the
audio rather than the video type. Two embodiments are disclosed.
In the first embodiment (Fig. 1), the leader tape surface
opposite to the magnetic layer 2 is exposed to sand blasting or
chemical etching in order to provide a roughened surface for
cleaning the capstan (col. 1, lines 52-56; col. 2, lines 16-22).
In the second embodiment (Fig. 3), both surfaces of the leader
tape are roughened in order to provide cleaning of the magnetic
head and the capstan (col. 2, lines 23-27). Sasaki does not
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