Appeal No. 1999-0289
Application No. 08/336,690
be recorded thereby forming a personal medical information file;
and
(d) reproducing said personal information file of said
single specified person from said DAT when said single specified
person is being diagnosed.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Ichikawa 4,737,912 Apr. 12, 1988
(filed Sept. 3, 1985)
Claims 21, 23-29 and 32-42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
103 as unpatentable over Ichikawa.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the
respective positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
This board has previously rendered a decision (Paper No. 37,
April 5, 1993) on similar claims. The difference between those
claims and the claims presently on appeal, as noted by the
examiner, at page 2 of Paper No. 45, is that the latter claims
recite that the recording area of the DAT is divided into a
plurality of areas, designating the information which is to be
recorded into these areas. The examiner’s response to these
additions was to cite column 4, line 4 et seq. of U.S. Patent No.
4,812,924 to show that it was conventional to provide 128 blocks
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