Ex parte NAKAYAMA - Page 7




                 Appeal No. 1999-2276                                                                                                                   
                 Application 08/785,802                                                                                                                 


                          each of said two erase track widths by said defined                                                                           
                          distance;                                                                                                                     
                                   said write/read head and said erase head being                                                                       
                          constructed integrally with each other.                                                                                       




                          In rejecting Appellant’s claims, the Examiner relies on                                                                       
                 Appellant’s  admitted  prior  art  (APA)  and  the  following                                                                          
                 reference:                                                                                                                             
                          Mori                                         JP 3-173,908                                 Jul. 29,                            
                                                                                                                    1991                                
                          Claims 1 and 3-5 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)                                                                      
                 as being obvious over Appellant’s APA and Mori.  Rather than                                                                           
                 repeat the arguments of the Appellant and Examiner, we refer                                                                           
                 the reader to the Appellant’s Brief  and Examiner’s Answer  for1                                      2                               
                 the respective details thereof.                                                                                                        
                                                                     OPINION                                                                            



                          1Appellant filed an Appeal Brief (“Brief”) on February 8,                                                                     
                 1999.                                                                                                                                  

                          2The Examiner, in response to Appellant’s Brief, filed an                                                                     
                 Examiner's Answer on March 15, 1999.                                                                                                   
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