Appeal No. 97-3469
Application 08/188,427
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 12), the
Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 19) (pages referred to as
"EA__"), the [First] Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 21) (pages referred to as "SEA__"), the [Second]
Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 23) (pages referred
to as "2dSEA__"), and the [Third] Supplemental Examiner's
Answer (Paper No. 25) (pages referred to as "3dSEA__") for a
statement of the examiner's position. We refer to the Brief
(Paper No. 16½), the Reply Brief (Paper No. 20) (pages
referred to as "RBr__"), the [First] Supplemental Reply Brief
(Paper No. 22) (pages referred to as "SRBr__"), and the
[Second] Supplemental Reply Brief (Paper No. 24) (pages
referred to as "2dSRBr__") for a statement of the appellants'
position.
OPINION
X and XI O
It is noted that the relationships for X and X on page 5I O
of the specification are inconsistent with X and X as shownI O
in figures 3 and 4. X and X , according to the relationshipsI O
on page 5, are the perpendicular distances from the edge of
the write gap path to the edge of the read gap path, not the
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