The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ 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 ___________ 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 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007