The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 35
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GORDON J. SMITH
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Appeal No. 1998-2472
Application No. 08/614,324
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative
Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 4 through 8 and 12 through 24, which are
all of the claims pending in this application.
Appellant's invention relates to a method for detecting
defects in a disk drive storage device. The method includes
the steps of deriving a test signal indicative of a parameter
to be measured, detecting an abnormal value by identifying a
sample of the test signal that exceeds a threshold value,
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