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          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 24              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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         Ex parte MIKIO TOKUYAMA, HAYATO SHIMIZU, SATOMITSU IMAI, SHOZO               
          SAEGUSA, MASAHIKO SEGA, TOSHIHISA OKAZAKI and YUZO YAMAGUCHI                
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2002-1240                                  
                               Application 09/247,550                                 
                                     ___________                                      
                                HEARD: March 18, 2003                                 
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          Before KRASS, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1 through 15, all the claims pending in the instant                  
          application.                                                                
               The invention relates to a rotary recording apparatus for              
          reading and writing data from and to a rotating disc.  Magnetic             
          disc technology has increased the capacity of memory by                     
          increasing the processing speed, and accordingly, the rotational            


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