Ex parte LAUGHLIN - Page 5




          Appeal No. 95-3254                                                          
          Application 08/029,492                                                      


          adjacent projector portion which projects images from the central           
          processing unit.                                                            
               As to these deficiencies, the examiner’s combination of                
          Araki and Mohler does not cure at least this defect as to                   
          independent claims 20 and 31.  Turning to independent claims 18             
          and 19, the examiner has combined all five references relied upon           
          in the answer in an effort to reach the subject matter of these             
          claims.  It is difficult to follow and understand the examiner’s            
          reasoning as to any rationale, motivation or line of reasoning              
          why the artisan would have found it obvious to have combined                



          the teachings and suggestions of each of the respective                     
          references in any manner let alone in the manner claimed to reach           
          the subject matter of independent claims 18 and 19 on appeal.  In           
          any event, we find that none of the five references relied upon             
          to reject claims 18 and 19 or any combination of these references           
          would have led the artisan to have formed a single lid portion              
          with a liquid crystal display, the lid portion further having a             
          projector for projecting either video information from the                  
          central processing unit or projecting images from the central               
          processing unit as claimed.                                                 

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