Appeal No. 1997-2857
Application 08/171,175
skilled in the art would not recognize in an applicant’s
disclosure a description of the invention defined by the
claims. Wertheim, 541 F.2d at 265, 191 USPQ at 98. After
reviewing the arguments of record, however, it is our opinion
that the Examiner has not provided sufficient reasons or
evidence to satisfy such burden.
The Examiner asserts (Answer, pages 4 and 5) a lack of
description of the recording of an absolute track address
signal on a tape at a position which precedes the
predetermined absolute track address position. It is our
view, however, that a review of Appellants’ specification
would reveal to the skilled artisan that such a recording of
absolute track addresses is taking place. As pointed out by
Appellants (Brief, page 9), the specification at page 37,
lines 16-22 discloses that absolute track addresses are
recorded in subcode areas of each track along the tape to
define tape areas such as the recording servo actuating area R
and the invalid data recording area S illustrated in Figure
25. Further, as described at pages 34 and 35 of Appellants’
specification with reference to the Figure 25 embodiment, the
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