Appeal No. 97-3451
Application 08/325,832
first output rate and generates data channel information for
transmission over a data bus;
a servo signal decoder that receives servo signal
thermometer code information from the comparator circuit at a
second output rate, demodulates it, and provides demodulated
signal information to a servo controller.
Opinion
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 1-7, 25, and 26-28
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Cheung and
Garuts.
We sustain the rejection of claims 8-13, 14, 17-21, and 22-
24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Cheung and
Garuts.
Our opinion is based only on the arguments presented by the
appellant in his brief. Arguments not raised by the appellant
are not before us, are not at issue, and thus have not been
considered.
According to the appellant, in this appeal, all rejected
claims 1-14 and 17-28 stand or fall together (Br. at 5).
On page 6 of the brief, the appellant argues:
As recited in all the independent claims, the
analog readback signal is received and is converted to
a thermometer code output, which is directly provided
to the data channel and the servo decoder.
That the appellant considers the claimed invention as requiring a
thermometer code to be provided to both a data channel decoder
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