Appeal No. 2002-2015 Page 6
Application No. 09/232,138
whether a reference anticipates a claim must focus on what
subject matter is encompassed by the claim and what subject
matter is described by the reference.
The examiner (answer, page 3) takes the position that the
controller of claim 6 is met by the sub PCB 137 which performs
read/write operation (data channel operation) between the heads
and disks, and refers our attention to col. 5, lines 18-31 and
col. 6, line 55 et seq. of Hatchett.
Appellant asserts (brief, page 18) that claim 6 recites that
each of the HDAs contain at least one controller adapted for
performing, responsively to the main PCB, a driving operation or
a read/write operation of the disks and heads included in the
HDA. Appellant argues (brief, page 14) that each HDA in the
Hatchett patent includes only heads 127 and disks 135, without a
control module integrated into each HDA."
As stated by our reviewing court in In re Hiniker Co., 150
F.3d 1362, 1369, 47 USPQ2d 1523, 1529 (Fed. Cir. 1998) “[t]he
name of the game is the claim.”
Claim 6 recites “ a main control board; and a plurality of
head disk asssemblies, each electrically connected by connectors
to said main control board and each containing at least one
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