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                The opinion in support of the decision being entered                         
                today was not written for publication in a law journal                       
                and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                   
                                                                    Paper No. 17             

                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                            
                                                                                            
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                
                                     AND INTERFERENCES                                       
                                                                                            
                                    Ex parte KEN CHANG                                       
                                                                                            
                                   Appeal No. 2004-0723                                      
                                Application No. 09/768,974                                   
                                                                                            
                                          ON BRIEF                                           
                                                                                            
          Before KIMLIN, KRASS and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                        
          Judges.                                                                            
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                               


                                    DECISION ON APPEAL                                       
                This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-30,                   
          35 and 37-39.  Claims 31-34, 36 and 40, the other claims                           
          remaining in the present application, are objected to as being                     
          dependent upon a rejected base claim.  Claims 1, 13 and 35 are                     
          illustrative:                                                                      
                1.  A positioner for moving an E-block and a data transducer                 
          of a disk drive relative to a storage disk, the E-block having a                   
          longitudinal axis, the positioner comprising:                                      
                a magnet assembly producing a magnetic field; and                            

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