Appeal No. 2002-0344
Application No. 09/114,584
arm 13. The examiner also maintains that Figure 2 of APA teaches turning on power to
a data storage unit by showing item 50. Elements 51-53 of APA Figure 2 are said to
show executing a start operation for the storage unit by executing internal diagnostic
programs, rotating the spindle motor to a predetermined rotational speed and reading a
microcode. The examiner asserts that “executing generation of corrected tension data
for the flexible cable” is taught by item 54 in APA Figure 2.
The examiner recognizes that APA does not teach causing an access command
from the computer to be in an executable state or executing the access command using
tension data for the flexible cable generated before the power was turned on. The
examiner turns to Bertschy for a disclosure, at column 3, lines 64-68, of a slider position
upon start up being the previous powered down position, and, at column 1, lines 25-28,
of using the transducer head to access the recording area of the respective disk.
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious “to modify the disk
drive access system taught by [APA], to include [the] disk drive system of
Bertschy...wherein start-up accessing is began [sic] from the previous powered-down
transducer location. This provides for a reduction in necessary transducer arm
movement required by the new access, as taught by Bertschy...” [answer-page 4].
The examiner recognizes that even the combination of APA and Bertschy does
not teach detecting and executing previously unexecuted commands, so the examiner
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