Appeal No. 2002-1339
Application No. 09/148,239
either. Accordingly, with no clear suggestion by Imamura as to
the use of comb actuators and a very clear suggestion of its
inapplicability to HDDs, we find it unlikely that the skilled
artisan would have taken away from Imamura any suggestion to use
a comb microactuator in a “disc drive data storage system,” as
claimed.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the rejection of claims
1-7, 9-13 and 15-17 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Since Tang is no help in supplying the deficiency of
Imamura, i.e., a motivation to employ a comb microactuator in a
disc drive data storage system, we also will not sustain the
rejection of claims 8, 14 and 24 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
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