Ex parte LEE et al. - Page 9




          Appeal No. 1998-0866                                                        
          Application No. 08/698,707                                                  


          page 5).  Clearly each of Swanson and Brock teach the                       
          recording device is to record on the magnetic strip only and                
          to avoid contamination of the picture portion.  We find that                
          at the time the invention was made a person having ordinary                 
          skill in the art combining the teachings of Brock and Swanson               
          would provide that the roller be limited to printing on the                 
          magnetic strip without contaminating the picture portion of                 
          the film.                                                                   
               Appellants' claims 4 and 5 further limit claim 1 by                    
          providing that the information magnetically stored on said                  
          roller periphery "constitutes a series of continuously-                     
          repeating complete identical messages" (claim 4) and "are                   
          sufficiently short to ensure that at least one of the                       
          identical messages will be recorded on the magnetic track for               
          each exposed frame of the filmstrip" (claim 5).  Swanson                    
          discloses that the roller wheel depositing the information                  
          onto the magnetized strip "can make one complete revolution                 
          within the space of a single frame" (col. 5, lines 15-16) and               
          "the pattern can be repeated around the roller wheel,                       
          providing redundant patterns, if desired for error checking or              
          other safeguard against slippage" (col. 5, lines 19-22).  The               
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