Appeal No. 1999-2705
Application 08/686,756
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Lehureau 5,124,869 June 23,
1992
Masaki et al. (Masaki) 5,392,273 February 21,
1995
Christner et al. (Christner) 5,412,518 May
2, 1995
Claims 1-8 and 13-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Lehureau, Christner, and
Masaki.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 9) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper
No. 15) for a statement of the Examiner's position, and to the
brief (Paper No. 14) and the reply brief (Paper No. 16) for a
statement of Appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Claims 1-8
The Examiner finds that Lehureau teaches the claimed
process of claim 1 except (FR3):
Lehureau does not teach determining a current value in
preliminary tests, permanently storing the current in a
non-volatile memory separate from the tape, and on
selection of the recording heads supplying the stored
values. See col. 1 lines 40-55.
In other words, Lehureau does not teach anything about
what Appellant claims to be his invention in the "wherein for
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