Appeal No. 1999-0264
Application No. 08/573,582
stored on the disk to indicate write permission or inhibition
(column 3, line 66 to column 4, line 24). Like Nakajima,
Saldanha does not teach a microprocessor as part of the disk
storage device, interposed between a host computer and the
storage medium.
We further agree with the Examiner that Kobayashi teaches
a microprocessor that informs a higher rank device of a write
inhibition error (column 8, lines 25-62). The microprocessor
of Kobayashi determines whether the recording mode specified
by the higher rank device is "update write" or "initial
write." If initial write is requested and information has
previously been recorded in the data field, the microprocessor
does not write the data, and informs the higher rank device
that the data field has been written to.
We disagree with the Examiner that the person having
ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to combine
Nakajima, Saldanha, Kobayashi, (Director, and Purvis) to
achieve the claimed invention. The Examiner cites column 4,
lines 63-68 of Saldanha as motivation for the combination.
Here, Saldanha suggests the advantage of "distinguish[ing]
between erased and written sectors on standard MO media," a
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