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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ZHIMIN HE, GUOXIAO GUO,
HUA QIAN and ENGHONG ONG
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Appeal No. 2005-0661
Application No. 09/894,480
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, MCQUADE and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.
MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Zhimin He et al. appeal from the final rejection of claims
1, 3 through 8, 10 through 15, 17, 19 and 20. Claims 2 and 9,
the only other claims pending in the application, stand objected
to as depending from rejected base claims.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “pivots for use with disc drive
actuators” (specification, page 1). Representative claims 1 and
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