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          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was              
          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of                 
          the Board.                                                                  
                                                            Paper No. 22              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                Ex parte SANFORD A. BOLASNA and LAURENCE S. SAMUELSON                 
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                                Appeal No. 2001-0165                                  
                               Application 08/893,220                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before CALVERT, PATE, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent                    
          Judges.                                                                     
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 35-               
          42.  These are the only claims remaining in the application.                
               The claimed invention is directed to a method of                       
          manufacturing a slider in a hard disk drive.  The method                    
          includes removing a portion of the air bearing surface only at              
          the side edge of the air bearing surface and proximate the                  
          magnetic head.                                                              
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