Appeal No. 1999-0289
Application No. 08/336,690
clinical and case studies of a plurality of patients, it is also
clear that only a single individual’s medical information may be
stored. As we pointed out in our earlier decision of April 5,
1993 [page 6], and as indicated by the examiner, even in
Ichikawa, “when the first person’s data is inputted there is only
a single person’s data on the medium.” As we further indicated
at that section of our decision, both image data and patient
information relating to a single specific patient are retrieved
in Ichikawa and it would have been manifest to artisans that the
relevant information for each patient may be stored on either a
separate recording medium for each individual patient or on a
common, mass storage device wherein information on a plurality of
patients is stored. We would also note that at page 12, lines 21
et seq. of the instant specification, appellant states that while
Figure 1 is described as referring to a DAT which belongs to
individual patients, “the invention is not limited thereto.”
Thus, even appellant does not limit the invention to loading a
DAT with information regarding only a single individual patient.
3. Ichikawa indicates, at column 5, lines 15-21, that while
an optical disk is disclosed, the medical information may be
stored on “other recording medium such as floppy disc, magnetic
tape, magnetic drum, etc.” Clearly then, this is a suggestion
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