Appeal No. 2000-0354
Application No. 08/682,471
As noted by appellants at the bottom of page 6 of the brief,
Bajorek does not teach this feature. On the contrary, Bajorek
places the components of the disk drive system in a low power
mode when the measured energy of a disk drive system is less than
a predetermined value, not greater than this value as required by
the noted claims on appeal. This is clear from the discussion at
columns 6 and 7 of Bajorek as well as the showings in figures 6A,
6B and figures 10 and 12.
The examiner’s corresponding argument at the top of page
3 of the answer as to appellants’ arguments with respect to
claims 2, 5 and 16 refers us to the examiner’s “Official Notice”
comments in the final rejection. The initial instance where
these examiner’s comments occur are at page 3 in paragraph 5 in
the final rejection where the examiner essentially takes Official
Notice that it would have been obvious to the artisan to reduce
power when an over power sensing situation occurs to ensure that
the devices do not malfunction under extreme conditions. The
examiner’s second instance in the final rejection occurs at page
5 where it asserts that the concept (apparently the concept of
reducing power when a sensed value exceeds a predetermined value)
is considered by the examiner to be as old as computers
themselves. The examiner goes on to remind appellants to “look
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