The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 31 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte EISAKU SAIKI, SHINTARO SUZUMURA, TERUMI TAKASHI, KAZUTOSHI ASHIKAWA, TSUGUYOSHI HIROOKA, SHOICHI MIYAZAWA and MASASHI MORI, _____________ Appeal No. 2000-0373 Application No. 08/450,245 ______________ HEARD: January 17, 2002 _______________ Before KRASS, BARRETT and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4, 7 and 18-23. Claims 5, 6 and 8-17 have been withdrawn as being directed to a nonelected invention. The invention is directed to a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus. Appellants discovered that there is a problem when a group of serial write data is 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007