Appeal No. 1999-1539
Application 08/584,118
standing of the invention can be achieved by the following
claim.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A magnetic recording head for at least one of reading
from and writing to a medium moving across the head,
comprising:
a substrate;
a closure separated from said substrate by a gap, wherein
said closure has a substantially planar surface and is formed
from a magnetic material;
a gap layer deposited on said substrate in said gap, said
gap layer having a first nonplanar topography along said gap;
and
a patterned gap filler layer deposited on said
substantially planar surface of said closure having a second
topography along said gap that inversely corresponds to said
first nonplanar topography such that said gap between said
substantially planar surface of said closure and said gap
layer is substantially filled by said patterned gap filler
layer.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Sundaram et al. (Sundaram) 5,394,285 Feb. 28, 1995
Canon (Japanese) 2-29910 2 Jan. 31, 1990
2Our decision is based on the PTO English translation of
this reference, a copy of which is enclosed with this
decision.
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