Appeal No. 96-1890
Application No. 08/111,176
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the 2
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We reverse.
The examiner contends, with regard to independent claims
1 and 7, that Irby’s Figure 3 meets all of the limitations of
the claims but for a showing of a pattern containing encoded
information in a plurality of transversely spaced stripes
parallel to the length of the tape having a transverse
direction of magnetization, and reading and decoding the
pattern information. Therefore, the examiner relies on Thomas
which shows a pattern, in Figure 3, which contains encoded
information in a plurality of transversely spaced stripes
parallel to the length of the tape. Thomas also teaches the
reading and decoding of pattern information. Therefore, the
examiner concludes, it would have been obvious to modify the
system of Irby by including the teachings of Thomas to use a
pattern containing encoded information in a plurality of
transversely spaced stripes parallel to the length of the
2The reply brief, filed January 17, 1996, was refused
entry by the examiner and has, accordingly, not been
considered by us.
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