Ex Parte Marshall et al - Page 6



                Appeal 2006-2020                                                                              
                Application 10/267,152                                                                        

                rendering him capable of combining the prior art references.”  DyStar                         
                Textilfarben GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG v. C.H. Patrick Co., 464 F.3d                          
                1356, 1368, 80 USPQ2d 1641, 1651 (Fed. Cir. 2006).                                            

                                                ANALYSIS                                                      
                      Burris clearly recognizes that permitting the operator of a diagnostic                  
                medical imaging ultrasound system to adjust the position and orientation of                   
                the display device thereof relative to the cart is desirable ergonomically and                
                provides swiveling arms and a swiveling hinge to facilitate such adjustment                   
                (Findings of Fact 2, 3).  As evidenced by Rosen in particular, as well as                     
                Crain and Yeh, providing handles on the housings of display monitors to                       
                facilitate manipulation of the monitor to adjust its position or orientation for              
                optimal viewing was well known in the art at the time of Appellants’                          
                invention.  The benefit of providing a handle to facilitate grasping the                      
                monitor for repositioning or reorientation is truly technology-independent                    
                and would have been readily recognized by one of ordinary skill in the art as                 
                equally applicable to adjustably-mounted display devices of medical                           
                diagnostic imaging ultrasound systems.  Moreover, one of ordinary skill in                    
                the art would have immediately understood how to apply a handle, or a pair                    
                of handles as taught by Rosen, to the display device of Burris to assist the                  
                operator in grasping the display device for repositioning or reorientation.                   
                Accordingly, we conclude that implicit motivation exists to combine the                       
                applied references, Burris and Rosen in particular, by providing a pair of                    
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