Appeal No. 1999-2703
Application No. 08/772,068
Appellant points out that “all of these spring
geometrics” have a bearing on the “moments and reactions of
all parameters” [principal brief-page 10]. However, while it
is true that many parameters must be taken into account by the
artisan when designing a contact type magnetic disk drive,
appellant has pointed to nothing to persuade us that the
design of such parameters would entail anything more than
ordinary skill in the art or that, based on the evidence
provided by the applied references, the claimed values would
be anything more than optimization of result effective
variables.
We find nothing in appellant’s arguments to convince us
of any error in the examiner’s explanation that it would have
been obvious to provide the mass of the slider in Hamaguchi as
being greater than 2 mg, as taught by Yamaguchi, “in order to
provide slider stabilization during recording/reproducing by
increasing its inertia in a manner well known, established and
appreciated in the art, and as exemplified by Yamaguchi . . .
wherein it is illustrated via an equation between lines 45 and
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