Appeal No. 97-3926
Application 08/481,091
of recorded information (col. 2, lines 13-20), as required by
claims 35 and 38. Nowicki explains:4
The cassette is inserted for playback in a vtr machine
having badly fouled heads. The display at the video
monitor is initially completely haphazard,
non-synchronized, noisy and snowy. Within about 10
seconds the display suddenly clarifies and synchronizes
to present a clear, well-defined color test bar pattern,
whereupon the machine is immediately stopped. [Col. 3,
line 50 to col. 4, line 2.]
Regarding claim 35, the examiner, conceding that Nowicki
fails to disclose a plurality of first sets of instructions,
argues that "[i]t would have been obvious . . . to provide
Nowicki et al[.] with a plurality of sets of instructions as
taught by Siddiq" because the artisan "would have been
motivated to provide a plurality of sets of instructions so
that different diagnostic information that pertains to
different tape components is able to be conveyed to the user"
(Answer at 4-5). Appellants respond that
Siddiq does not disclose a first set of instructions to
be repeated serially followed by a second different set
of instructions as recited in the claims. The two
segments in Figure 5 of Siddiq are not used to provide
different instructions. There is no mention or any
4Siddiq describes his cleaning tape, which does not
provide simultaneous head cleaning and playback, as an
improvement over Nowicki's cleaning tape (Siddiq, col. 1,
lines 23-41).
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