Appeal No. 96-1078
Application No. 07/960,887
Claims 1 through 11 stand rejected under the first
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 for lack of enablement. The
examiner objects to the disclosed and claimed setting of a
lower limit, but not an upper limit, for the vertical coercive
force and the saturation magnetic flux density.
Claims 1 through 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Shiroishi in view of Watanabe.
Claims 1 through 8 and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over either of the Hayashi
publications in view of Kobayashi.
Claims 9 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over either of the Hayashi publications in
view of Kobayashi and Otomo.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answers for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
The lack of enablement rejection is reversed, and the
obviousness rejection of claims 4, 5 and 8 is reversed. The
obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 3, 6, 7 and 9
through 11 is sustained.
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