Appeal No. 95-4550
Application 08/025,902
embodiment shown in Figure 2 of Yumura’s drawings.
With regard to the rejection of claims 1 and 6 based on
Yamada in view of Yumura, we are convinced that one of ordinary
skill in the art would have recognized the effect of varying or
changing the lever arm length between the point of contact of the
dimple and the pivot axis of the bight upon factors such as the
bending moment. Skill in the art is presumed, not the converse.
In re Sovish, 769 F.2d 738, 743, 226 USPQ 771, 774 (Fed. Cir.
1985). We are therefore satisfied that one of ordinary skill in
the art would have recognized the effect of shortening the lever
arm length between the contact point of the dimple 25 and the
pivot axis of the bight in Yamada’s structure to offset the
contact point of the dimple from the center of the flexure
portion for the slider so that it lies in closer proximity to the
bight portion of the flexure in the manner implicitly taught by
Yumaura.
In view of the foregoing, we are satisfied that the combined
teachings of the applied references, whether taken as Yumura in
view or Yamada or Yamada in view of Yumura, would have suggested
the subject matter of claims 1 and 6 to one of ordinary skill in
the art to warrant a conclusion of obviousness under the test set
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