Appeal No. 96-0626
Application 08/187,328
(Appellants' claim 1 line 5) the magnetoresistive element 10
of Yoda, the only missing limitations are the electrical
resistivity and thermal conductivity claimed. Since
Appellants' specification, at TABLE 1 page 10, acknowledges
that currently used insulators meet the claimed electrical
resistivity, little or no experimentation or optimization
would be needed to meet this parameter. As to the claimed
thermal conductivity, Yoda recites that a diamond film is more
effective because of its excellent heat conductivity. It
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of invention to have optimized this property and
achieved the claimed thermal conductivity. As noted supra,
determining the optimal values of result effective variables
would have been obvious and ordinarily within the skill of the
art. In re Boesch.
Claim 12 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Yoda in view of Suyama. Yoda teaches the
claimed invention as noted supra with respect to claims 1 and
3. However, Yoda does not recite that the "magnetoresistive
element has a width approximating a height" (Appellants' claim
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