Appeal No. 2002-0344
Application No. 09/114,584
turns to Blackborow, at column 13, lines 25-45, for a teaching of selecting the next
command to be executed from a buffer which contains new, unexecuted data.
The examiner concludes therefrom that it would have been obvious to modify the
disk drive system taught by APA and Bertschy “to include the buffering in the disk drive
system of Blackborow...because this allows the computer to continue to read new data
while it is simultaneously executing another command, as taught by Blackborow...”
(answer-page 5).
It is appellants’ position that while APA shows a start operation for a storage unit
which includes the step of generating correct tension data prior to allowing access to
the storage unit by the computer, it does not show or suggest reading stored tension
data for the flexible cable. Thus, APA teaches that microcode is read during a start-up
operation and that corrective tension data for the flexible cable is generated after
reading the microcode, but there is no reading of stored tension data for the flexible
cable, as claimed.
It is clear to us that neither Bertschy nor Blackborow teaches or suggests
anything regarding tension data for a flexible cable in a disk storage system.
Accordingly, in order for the instant claimed subject matter to have been obvious, the
suggestion for reading stored tension data must come from APA.
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