Appeal No. 1999-0289
Application No. 08/336,690
that the particular storage medium is not important and that it
would have been obvious to provide such medical information on
storage media, such as DAT, which may have not yet been widely
employed, at the time of Ichikawa.
Moreover, Ichikawa describes his floppy disk as being
divided into a plurality of recording areas. While these areas
may store clinical indexes having retrieval information
pertaining to divided areas of the optical disk which stores
clinical images, this would be, in our view, a clear suggestion
to divide a recording medium into a plurality of recording areas,
as claimed. When that storage medium is a DAT, clearly within
the realm of recording media suggested by Ichikawa, the DAT would
clearly have been divided into a plurality of recording areas.
4. While appellant appears to assert that DAT was used only
for recording music at the time of appellant’s invention, since
appellant points to nothing in the instant disclosure alluding to
a new kind of DAT, it would appear that appellant was employing a
conventional DAT, at the time of the invention, to record the
medical information. Thus, it is not clear what appellant relies
on that would indicate that there was something new about
appellant’s DAT which allowed recording of medical images and
information, rather than merely music. Accordingly, we fail to
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