Appeal No. 2002-1180
Application No. 08/924,552
positioned using the embedded servo information by controlling
the microactuators to move the corresponding data heads “based on
relative positions of the coarse actuator and each of the
plurality of microactuators.”
It is unclear from the examiner’s statement and rationale
for the rejection of claim 5, at page 2 of Paper No. 11, what the
examiner relies on in Kobayashi for moving the data heads “based
on relative positions of the coarse actuator and each of the
plurality of microactuators.” The examiner elucidates, at pages
4-5 of the answer, by citing column 8, line 51-column 9, line 27,
column 11, lines 15-61 and column 12, lines 24-44, of Kobayashi
for the claimed positioning based on the relative position of the
course and fine actuators. We have reviewed these cited portions
of the reference but fail to find the claimed features.
The examiner also contends that appellants’ arguments are
not commensurate in scope with the claim language. While
appellants may present certain arguments regarding limitations
not in the claim, their argument regarding positioning of data
heads based on relative positions of the coarse actuator and each
of the plurality of microactuators is clearly based on
limitations appearing in the claim and these limitations have not
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