Appeal No. 96-1904
Application 08/164,854
denotes a surface of a structural entity, i.e., a surface
other than a surface on the body of a user. Accordingly,
based upon
the underlying disclosure, it is apparent to this panel of the
board that an artisan would understand that, in use, the
disclosed keyboard need not rest upon a flat or hard surface,
but may be used with the keyboard in a pocket, i.e., the
keyboard rests on the bottom of a pocket (neither a flat nor
hard surface).
In our opinion, an artisan would not fairly
appreciate from the overall original underlying disclosure any
inference at all that a user’s body alone (hand, wrist, or
arm) was, in fact, intended to be the sole support for the
appellant’s keyboard in use. Thus, we believe it fair to say
that the recitation in claim 1 that the right and left hand
keyboard may be operated “independently of supporting
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