Appeal No. 2002-1336
Application No. 09/259,062
Appellants’ invention pertains to a latch for a disc drive,
wherein the latch retains the read/write head in the parking zone
when the disc drive is non-operational. Independent claims 1 and
10, which appear in the appendix annexed to the main brief, are
illustrative of the appealed subject matter.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Mizoshita et al. (Mizoshita) 5,608,592 Mar. 4, 1997
Rahimi et al. (Rahimi) 5,621,591 Apr. 15, 1997
Reinhart 5,734,527 Mar. 31, 1998
Aruga et al. (Aruga) 5,764,441 Jun. 9, 1998
The following rejections are before us for review:1
(a) claims 1-3, 8, 10-12 and 17, rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e), as being anticipated by Reinhart;
(b) claims 4, 6, 9, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 23 and 24, rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103, as being unpatentable over Reinhart in
view of Rahimi and Aruga;2 and
(c) claims 22 and 25, rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103, as
being unpatentable over Reinhart in view of Mizoshita.
1The anticipation rejection of claim 20, and the 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, second paragraph, rejection of claims 1-4, 6, 8-13, 15 and
17-25 made in the final rejection have been withdrawn. See page
3 of the answer.
2The Rahimi and Aruga references were cited against the
claims for the first time in the answer in response to
appellants’ challenge to the examiner’s taking of official notice
in the rejection of these claims in the final rejection.
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