Appeal No. 95-2427
Application 08/013,987
of rejection pursuant to the provisions of 37 CFR § 1.196(b).
The Claimed Subject Matter
The claims on appeal are directed to a magneto-optic memory medium. Claim 1 is representative
of the claimed subject matter and reads as follows:
A magneto-optic memory medium consisting essentially of:
a first dielectric film, a magneto-optic memory film, a second dielectric film and a
reflective film, wherein said films are superposed in layers on a light trans-mitting substrate,
the magneto-optic memory film being a rare earth-transition metal alloy film havng the
composition formula:
(Gd Tb ) Fe
x 1-x y 1-y
wherein x is 0.58 to 0.62, and y is 0.27 to 0.33, and wherein said magneto-optic
memory film has a thickness of 20-50 nm.
References of Record2
The following references of record are relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness:
Takahashi et al. (Takahashi) 4,610,912 Sep. 9, 1986
Tanaka et al. (Tanaka) 4,814,238 Mar. 21, 1989
Gardner 4,833,043 May 23, 1989
Denwa et al. (Denwa) 3 2 071 696 A Sep. 23, 1981
2In their brief, appellants refer to attached documents A, B and C attached to the brief. In our review, we did
not find the documents identified as A, B and C attached or included with the brief. We further note that in the answer,
the examiner made no comment about the documents. Since we are reversing the examiner’s rejection, we find it
unnecessary to remand this case to the examiner.
3The document lists the first named applicant as “Kokusai Kenshin Kenwa” and the first named inventor as
“Kokusai Kenshin Denwa.” These first named applicant and first named inventor appear to be same person, but the
spelling of the last name of one of the names is must be incorrect.
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