Appeal No. 1997-3820
Application 08/336,040
and its dependent claims 12-18. As appellant correctly2
notes, claim 11, which reads as follows, requires that the
determining means be located within the computer docking
station:
11. A computer docking station, comprising:
connection means for coupling to an external
monitor and an external keyboard, and means for
connecting a portable computer to said docking
station; and
means for determining whether or not said
external monitor is coupled to said docking station,
automatically displaying on said external monitor
and disabling the monitor of the portable computer
when said external monitor is coupled to said
docking station and displaying on the display of
said portable computer when said external monitor is
not coupled to said docking station. [Emphasis
added.]
We agree with appellant's implication that claim 11 is
narrower in this respect than the other independent claims,
whose rejection for obviousness over Mesfin in view of
Nishigaki we also affirm. Claims 1 and 2, for example, each 3
2We affirmed the rejection of claims 11-14 over Mesfin in
view of Nishigaki and the rejection of claims 15-18 over
Mesfin in view of Nishigaki and Swindler. Therefore, at page
11, line 11, of the Decision, the phrase "The rejection is
affirmed" should read "The rejections are affirmed."
3Reproduced in Decision at 3.
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