Appeal No. 1997-2036
Application No. 08/335,991
drawings as a long and narrow pathway, similar to elements 82
and 83, which are
also labeled as channels and which the examiner has applied
against the claimed channels. Further, Brown's element 81
appears in the drawings similar to appellant's channels, which
have been plainly distinguished from chambers above.
Therefore, Brown's element 81 clearly cannot be a chamber as
recited in claim 4. Accordingly, Brown does not include
plural chambers connected by channels, but rather at best
includes one chamber (element 66) with three connected
channels. Since Brown does not disclose every element of the
claim, Brown does not anticipate claim 4. Consequently, we
must reverse the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
As to the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 3,
the examiner submits (Final Rejection, page 4) that it would
have been obvious to replace Brown's system of channels and
chambers inside the disk drive with the same chambers and
channels, "but placed on the exterior of the disk drive and
laid completely on a plane parallel to the disk drive wall to
which the cover was connected as the one disclosed by Blanks."
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