Appeal 2007-0660
Application 10/116,574
ISSUES
The pivotal issue in the appeal before us is as follows:
Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish that
one of ordinary skill in the art, at the time of the present invention,
would have found that the combined disclosures of Taylor and Kuroda
would have suggested the limitations of (1) providing an audible
warning that the automatic shutdown is imminent, at a pre-designated
time prior to the automatic shutdown, and (2) automatically re-enabling
the automatic shutdown to occur after the pre-specified period of
inactivity, upon a subsequent power up of the handheld device to render
the claimed invention unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)?
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following findings of fact are supported by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The invention
1. Appellant invented a method and system for allowing a user to
temporarily disable the automatic shutdown feature in a portable device
(200) that includes an Auto-off device (299). (Specification 4).
2. As depicted in Figures 3 and 4, the automatic shutdown device (300)
of the portable device (200) includes a warning module (310) that issues an
audible warning that the shutdown of the portable device is imminent. (Id.
7.)
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