Appeal No. 2002-1810 Page 2
Application No. 09/336,503
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a disk drive suspension for supporting a
slider. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which has been reproduced in the appendix to the Brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Goss 6,014,289 Jan. 11, 2000
(filed Mar. 22, 1994)
Claims 5 and 10-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Goss.
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Goss.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 20) and the final rejection (Paper No. 16) for the examiner's complete
reasoning in support of the rejections, and to the Brief (Paper No. 18) and Reply Brief
(Paper No. 21) for the appellants’ arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellants’ specification and claims, to the applied prior art reference, and to the
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