Appeal No. 2000-0356 Page 13
Application No. 08/825,424
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge, concurring-in-part and
dissenting-in-part.
I concur in the result, but dissent from the reasoning
the majority uses in reversing the Examiner's rejection based
on NHK Spring and Karam.
NHK Spring shows a suspension assembly having a first
rigid beam section having a first portion for connection to a
support member and a second portion extending beyond the
support member, a flexible spring section connected to the
second portion of the first rigid beam section, and a second
rigid beam section connected to the flexible spring section.
A transducer assembly is intended to be connected to the
second rigid beam section. NHK Spring shows stamped raised
ridges extending along the edges of the first and second rigid
beam sections. One of ordinary skill in the art would have
appreciated that the stamped raised ridges provide stiffness
to the first and second sections. However, NHK Spring does
not show a stamped raised ridge in the interior portion of the
first rigid section and extending from the first portion
through the second portion.
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