The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 18 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte RICHARD G. YAMASAKI, TOMOAKI OHITSU, and KIYOSHI FUKAHORI ____________ Appeal No. 1999-2701 Application No. 08/650,850 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before THOMAS, KRASS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 15-17 and 32-34. Claims 1-14, 18-31, and 35-43 stand withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a non-elected invention. The claimed invention relates to data processing and data storage, and more particularly to precompensation of write data signals. Write precompensation compensates for media bit shift caused by magnetic nonlinearities on a magnetic disk. The appealedPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007