Appeal No. 2001-0476
Application No. 08/768,231
comprising an automatic gain control circuit and a servo
demodulator connected to said automatic gain control circuit for
sampling and holding amplitudes of burst signals and for
providing, as an output, information relative to the amplitudes
of the burst signals."
These distinctions in claim scope appear to be lost on the
Examiner since all of these claims were grouped and treated
together in the rejections as if they were of the same scope.
Therefore, this case is remanded so that the Examiner can
determine the scope of each of the claims and apply the prior art
accordingly.
Furthermore, it does not appear that the Examiner
appreciated the entire scope of claims 1, 3, 41 and 44. To
illustrate this point, we turn to the claims specifically
addressed in the Examiner's rejection, independent claims 41 and
44. In particular, we note that claim 41 recites,
. . . wherein said servo identification is recorded in
A and B portions of said servo bursts to enable
detection of said servo identification by a head when
said head is in an off-track state and an on-track
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