The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 39 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TAKESHI OHWE, TORU WATANABE, RYOSUKE KOISHI and SEIZI YONEOKA ____________ Appeal No. 2002-1157 Application No. 08/901,9401 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before HAIRSTON, BARRY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final rejection of claims 58-64, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claims 1-57 have been cancelled. We affirm-in-part. BACKGROUND Appellants’ invention relates to a magnetic head assembly used in a magnetic disk drive which includes a magnetic head 1 Application for patent filed July 29, 1997, which is a continuation of the Application No. 08/352,926, filed December 9, 1994, now abandoned, which claims the foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese Application No. 5-310629, filed December 10, 1993.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007