Appeal No. 2002-2300 Page 2
Application No. 09/186,212
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a subambient air bearing slider for use in disk
drives. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which has been reproduced below.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Strom et al. (Strom) 5.062,017 Oct. 29, 1991
Claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 13 and 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Strom.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
the appellant regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference to the Answer
(Paper No. 13) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and
to the Supplemental Brief (Paper No. 12)2 for the appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
In reaching our decision in this appeal, we have given careful consideration to
the appellant's specification and claims, to the applied prior art reference, and to the
respective positions articulated by the appellant and the examiner. As a consequence
of our review, we make the determinations which follow.
2The original Appeal Brief (Paper No. 10) was considered by the examiner to be defective (Paper
No. 11), which resulted in the filing of the Supplemental Brief.
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