Ex Parte HELOT et al - Page 1



               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20                

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       

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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte JACQUES H. HELOT,                               
                                  DANIEL I. CROFT,                                    
                                        and                                           
                                 DAVID A. WILLIAMS                                    
                                Appeal No. 2001-0004                                  
                             Application No. 08/961,580                               
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                                    ON BRIEF                                          
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            Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and LALL, Administrative Patent                
            Judges.                                                                   
            HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                    

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
                 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims                 
            1 through 15.                                                             
                 The disclosed invention relates to a docking station                 
            that is capable of interfacing to a docking port on a mobile              
            computing device.  The docking port and the keyboard of the               





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