Appeal No. 1995-3903 Page 15
Application No. 08/062,737
suggested the claimed scheduling of tasks in the same spatial
relationship for each sector period. Moon’s synchronization
of the tasks to a qualification area for each sector would
have suggested the initiation of tasks to a sector mark for a
present sector. The reference’s aforementioned scheduling of
the tasks would have ipso facto minimized the effect of
variations in the rotational speed of the disks as claimed.
Therefore, we find that the reference would have suggested the
language of claims 37 and 43.
Regarding claim 44, the appellants argue, “Moon does not
generate count values for each event but rather uses the same
count value for the same event for all sector periods.”
(Appeal Br. at 31.) In response, the examiner asserts, “Moon
disclose [sic] an interrupt signal [WEDGE] (e.g. see col.15
lines 22-27) to initiate routine POS-ISR which included Seek
Routine (see fig.17; col.28) and Servo Routine (see fig.18;
col.29).” (Examiner’s Answer at 9.)
We find that invention of claim 44 does not define over
Moon. The claim specifies in pertinent part “generating an
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