Ex Parte OHWE et al - Page 1




            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.                  





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