Appeal No. 1999-0162
Application No. 08/414,248
basis for the obviousness rejection, proposes to modify the
disk storage device of Motoyoshi. According to the Examiner
(Answer, page 4), Motoyoshi discloses the claimed invention
except for the exchanging of multi-disk cartridges in general
as well as any disclosure of the exchange of disks from one
multi-disk cartridge to another. To address these
deficiencies, the Examiner turns to Ishibashi which describes
a multi-magazine disk player which selectively accesses disks
from an array of multi-disk cartridges. In the Examiner’s
view, the skilled artisan would have been motivated and found
it obvious to utilize multi-disk cartridges, as suggested by
Ishibashi, instead of single disk cartridges in Motoyoshi,
thereby providing easier removal and handling. The Examiner
further suggests that the skilled artisan would have
appreciated that the routine swapping of disks by
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