Appeal No. 1998-0820
Application No. 08/274,771
(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" as recited in
claim 1 and thereby properly described under 35 U.S.C.§ 112,
first paragraph.
On page 5 of the answer, Examiner asserts that ESD
protection recited in claim 1 was "newly described." However,
page 6, lines 24-28, of the specification as originally filed
describes grounding of both disk 14 and MR head 20 to drive 10
as a way of preventing damage by ESD to the read head. Thus,
recitation of ESD protection recited in claim 1 was described
in the specification as originally filed.
The Examiner argues on page 4 of the answer that "spindle
rotation means connected to said cartridge receiving means for
rotating said removable cartridge at a first speed while
reading a track of data previously recorded by an inductive
head at a second speed with said removable cartridge" does not
have proper written description under 35 U.S.C.§ 112, first
paragraph. The Examiner asserts there "is no indication of
any single
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