Appeal No. 1996-1309
Application 08/053,174
Appellants' claim 21 and that it was reasonable for the
Examiner to believe that the lift generated within the data
storage region is less than the lift generated within the idle
region. Therefore, we will sustain the Examiner's rejection
of claims 22 and 23 as being unpatentable over Kato and
Samoto.
Appellants argue on page 8 of the brief that claim
24 recites the provision of a plurality of channels grouped on
a radially inward portion of the disk wherein each channel has
a selected depth which is greater than the depth of an
adjoining channel which is radially outward from the channel
wherein a transition region is provided between the outer
region and the storage region. Appellants argue that neither
Kato nor Samoto teaches or suggests this above limitation as
set forth within claim 24.
Appellants also argue that claim 25 recites the
provisions of a plurality of channels grouped on a radially
inward portion of the annular surface wherein each channel has
a selected width and wherein the width of a particular channel
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