Appeal No. 2001-0004
Application No. 08/961,580
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number
11), the brief (paper number 18) and the answer (paper
number 19) for the respective positions of the appellants
and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before
us, and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims
1 through 15.
Leman discloses a docking station connector 20 in a
tray portion 16 of a docking station for receiving a docking
port presumably located on the back surface of a notepad
computer 18 (Figures 2, 3 and 4).
According to the examiner (final rejection, page 2),
“Leman et al. lacks the teaching of a mobile computing
device having a keyboard on a first surface.” The examiner
turns to Ma for a teaching of a “mobile computing device
having a keyboard on a first surface,” and concludes that
“[i]t would have bee [sic, been] obvious to one or [sic, of]
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to use any type of portable device in the apparatus of Leman
et al.”
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