Appeal No. 2001-2687
Application No. 09/524,858
OPINION
We will reverse the rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 for the
reasons summarized by appellant at page 2 of the Reply Brief. The system
components in Cunningham are “mounted on a motherboard or card which is
connected to a back plane by edge connectors, and contrary to the Examiner’s
contention, the components which make up the computer system in Cunningham et al.
are not mounted in a relatively flat housing which is adapted to be mounted on a circuit
board.”
The rejections contend that Cunningham teaches the claimed computer
elements “mounted in a relatively flat housing which is adapted to be mounted on a
circuit board in a flat position” (Claim 36), and “mounted in a relatively flat rectangular
housing which is adapted to be mounted on a circuit board in a flat position” (Claim 40).
(Answer at 4-6.) The Answer does not specifically point out where the relevant
“housing” may be found, nor what the “module” may be, but refers to Figures 2b and 3
of Cunningham.
Figure 1 of Cunningham illustrates a diagnostic test system 100. The rear face
of the system contains standard PC compatible ports. Cunningham col. 4, ll. 24-54.
The internal layout of the system (Fig. 2A) includes four primary circuit boards: a
motherboard 300, a keypad adapter 301, a backplane 311, and a PCMCIA adapter
board 323 (FIG. 3) coupled to the PCMCIA board connector 321 of the backplane 311.
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