Appeal No. 2003-0212 Page 2
Application No. 09/089,053
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A circuit for detecting fly height, comprising:
a circuit for reading with a head a transition signal being
previously recorded on a disk;
a circuit for measuring the fly height of said head from
said disk based on a PW50 signal determined from said transition
signal;
a circuit to determine if a threshold height has been
reached based on said fly height.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Meyer et al. (Meyer) 5,991,113 Nov. 23, 1999
(filed Apr. 07, 1997)
Claims 1-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by the disclosure of Meyer. Claims 7-12 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the
examiner offers Meyer taken alone.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejections advanced by the examiner and the evidence
of anticipation and obviousness relied upon by the examiner as
support for the rejections. We have, likewise, reviewed and
taken into consideration, in reaching our decision, the
appellants’ arguments set forth in the brief along with the
examiner’s rationale in support of the rejections and arguments
in rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s answer.
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