Appeal No. 1998-2476
Application No. 08/074,485
does not produce the claimed moving means. Therefore, we do
not sustain the obviousness rejection of claim 118 over Smith
and Gerry.
Toupin, McClure, and Takano
The examiner rejects claims 145, 147, 170, 172, 195, 197,
220, and 222 as being unpatentable over Toupin in view of
McClure and Takano at page 11 of the final rejection. Since
Takano is used only to show a semiconductor laser 104 (Figure
1) for detecting the head position and not for curing the
deficiency noted above in the combination of Toupin and
McClure, we do not sustain the obviousness rejection of these
claims over Toupin, McClure, and Takano.
Toupin, McClure, and Pohl
The examiner rejects claims 146, 148, 171, 173, 196, 198,
221, and 223 as being unpatentable over Toupin in view of
McClure and Pohl at page 12 of the final rejection. Pohl is
used to provide a tunnel electrode 9 (Figures 2 and 3) in the
head assembly for permitting the positioning of the head
assembly with a one-nanometer accuracy, and not for curing the
deficiency noted above in the combination of Toupin and
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