Appeal No. 1998-0820
Application No. 08/274,771
"the ability of a component to conduct electricity." We find 5
in view of the ordinary meaning of the term "conductive,"
Appellant's claim 2 meets the requirements of 35 U.S.C.§ 112,
second paragraph.
We turn next to the issue of the rejection of claims 1-4
and 7-8 for lack of written description. There are two issues
presented to us: (1) whether the claims are supported by
written description in the original filed specification and
(2) whether amendments to the specification constitute new
matter under
35 U.S.C. § 132.
With respect to the written description of claims in the
originally filed application, the Examiner argues on page 6 of
the answer that "grounding means for connecting said rotating
magnetic rigid disk to a disk drive ground and the actuator to
provide electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection to said MR
head, wherein the voltage potential between said MR head and
said rotating magnetic rigid disk is limited to two or three
volts" was not properly described under 35 U.S.C.§ 112, first
paragraph.
5See Webster's New World Dictionary 290 (3d ed. 1986).
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