Appeal No. 95-2911
Application 07/814,693
no legally recognizable 'heart' of the invention." Para-Ordnance
Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int’l, Inc., 73 F.3d 1085, 1087, 37 USPQ2d
1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 117 S.Ct. 80 (1996)
citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock, Inc., 721 F.2d
1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 469
U.S. 851 (1984).
In regard to the rejection of claims 5 and 8 through 10
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Maeda and Kato,
Appellant argues on pages 6 and 7 of the brief that Maeda and
Kato, together or individually, fail to teach or suggest a sheet
metal head carriage having a sheet metal upraised wedge-shape
element having flat sides tapering to a thin edge. We note that
Appellant’s claim 5 recites a
floppy disk drive assembly having a magnetic head . . .
comprising: a carriage formed of sheet metal for
carrying the magnetic head; . . . in which the sheet
metal forming the carriage includes a narrow bracket
portion extending therefrom and having an integrally
formed, upraised, wedge-shaped element having flat
sides tapering to a thin edge for engagement with a
thread groove of the feed screw and being formed of
press-worked sheet metal, the sheet-metal being the
same sheet-metal forming the carriage so as to form a
unitary structure.
The Examiner argues on pages 4 and 5 of the answer that it
would have been obvious to those skilled in the art to modify the
carriage of Maeda in view of the Kato teaching of using sheet
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