Appeal No. 97-1398
Application 08/295,225
B. The new grounds of rejection based on Fujimura and Sasaki
Fujimura, at page 3 under the heading "Practical Example,"6
describes a cleaning tape which begins as a base film 4 having on
one surface (5) thereof alternating surface portions 6 and 7 of
"different surface roughness" and having formed on the other
surface a magnetic layer 9 (Trans. at 3, lines 12-15). This
tape, when tightly rolled, causes a "back transfer" of the
roughness of surface 5 to the magnetic layer, giving the magnetic
layer alternating areas 10 and 11 of different surface roughness
such that "the part 10 which possesses a large surface roughness
becomes the cleaning tape, and the part 11 which possesses a
small roughness becomes the check tape" (Trans. at 3, lines 20-
22). It is undisputed that at least the "check" tape portions 11
of the recording layer contain recorded audio and video
information which is played during the cleaning process in order
6Our understanding of this reference is based on two
translations. The first was prepared for the PTO by Schreiber
Translations, Inc. in May 1996, which is the month when the
Answer was mailed. As this translation is not mentioned in or
attached to the Answer, we assume it was not mailed to
appellants, an assumption which is consistent with appellants'
submission of a different translation with their reply brief. A
comparison of the two translations reveals no significant
differences. References hereinafter to the translation of
Fujimura are to appellants’ translation.
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