Appeal No. 1998-2658 Page 2
Application No. 08/507,981
inaccessible area of the medium. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. a software processing apparatus comprising:
first information reading means for reading a first
identification information stored in an area to which a user
is inhibited from accessing on a medium;
second information reading means for reading a second
identification information contained in software;
comparing means for comparing the first identification
information read by said first information reading means with
the second identification information read by said second
information reading means; and
software writing means for writing the software to the
medium only if said comparing means recognizes that the first
identification information corresponds to the second
identification information.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Tamada et al. (Tamada) 4,879,645 Nov. 7, 1989
Orbach 4,949,257 Aug. 14, 1990
Itami et al. (Itami) 5,418,852 May 23, 1995
Iebcopy, IBM pp. 1-6, (1993).
Claims 1-3, 5-7, and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Orbach in view of IBM and
Itami.
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