Appeal No. 2006-0467
Application No. 10/063,004
The examiner finds that Feuerherd teaches a rotatable
storage media having a substrate made of poly(arylene ether) and
a styrene material and a recording layer corresponding to the
claimed data layer. See the Answer, page 5. Recognizing that
Feuerherd teaches “in laser-optical recording and reading of
data, the recording layers are exposed through the dimensionally
stable substrate (column 19, lines 28-30, emphasis added),” the
examiner acknowledges that “Feuerherd et al fail to disclose
wherein the energy field is directed at the storage medium such
that the energy field is incident upon the data layer before it
can be incident upon the substrate... (the Answer, page 5)” In
other words, the examiner concedes that the storage media taught
by Feuerherd does not have a structural arrangement capable of
performing the claimed function. See also pages 2, 3, 13, and 14
of the specification in reference to Figures 1 and 2 in the
subject application.
To remedy this deficiency, the examiner relies on the
disclosure of Sandstrom. The examiner finds (Answer, page 5)
that:
Sandstrom teaches that it is known to form recording
disks such that they are either substrate-incident
(col. 1, lines 17-23) or air-incident (col. 1, lines
24-36), but that air-incident recording is preferred
because it “has the potential to produce extremely
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