Appeal No. 2003-0779
Application 09/286,413
The optical disc in accordance with the invention has a user-data
area that it a single contiguous zone so that video and audio
data can be continuous. Replacement areas for computer data are
located outside the user-data area.
Representative claim 8 is reproduced as follows:
8. A method for recording data on an optical disc, the
method comprising the following steps:
writing data in a user-data area of the optical disc;
encountering a defective area;
writing data intended for the defective area in a
replacement area; and
copying, the data from the replacement area of the defective
area to form contiguous data in the user-data area.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Dobbek et al. (Dobbek) 6,034,831 Mar. 7, 2000
(filed May 09, 1997)
Claims 8-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first
paragraph, as containing subject matter which was not described
in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one
skilled in the relevant art that the inventor, at the time the
application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 8-11 also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Dobbek taken alone.
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