Appeal No. 2002-1384
Application No. 09/330,311
Claims 11 and 12 are the only claims on appeal, and they read as follows:
11. A disc drive, comprising:
a head positionable adjacent a rotatable disc; and
control means for controlling the position of the head with respect to the disc.
12. A disc drive, comprising:
a head positionable adjacent a rotatable disc; and
error compensation means for compensating for errors in radial locations of servo fields
stored on tracks of the disc using a second integral of coil input current to determine compensation
values which are added to subsequent position error signals generated from the servo fields.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Wallis 4,594,622 June 10, 1986
Claims 11 and 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Wallis.
Reference is made to the brief (paper number 10) and the answer (paper number 13) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us, and we will reverse the
anticipation rejection of claim 11, and we will sustain the anticipation rejection of claim 12.
According to the examiner (answer, page 3), “Wallis Figure 1 and col. 5, line 67 through
col. 6, line 61 meet all the limitations of the claims, where 20-37 is a control means for controlling
the position of the head with respect to the disk, while the examiner considers 20-37 error
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