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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte WAYNE A. BONIN
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Appeal No. 2002-1339
Application No. 09/148,239
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-17 and 24.
The invention pertains to disc drives. In particular, the
invention is directed to the use of microactuators used in disc
drives. A low mass, comb-type microactuator is positioned
between the slider and the transducer of the disc drive and this
is said to provide relatively large travel with voltage
in/displacement out control. The low mass of the microactuator
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