Appeal No. 95-3158
Application 08/038,424
adjacent to said trackball, for actuation by a user’s
finger;
a cable for attaching said pointing device to a
computer, said cable passing downwardly through said
bottom wall of said housing;
said bottom wall having two recessed
channels extending orthogonally relative to each other
between said sides of said housing, said channels
intersecting where said cable passes through said
bottom wall, each of said channels having a U-shaped
cross section opening downwardly from said bottom wall,
each channel having a depth at least as great as the
thickness of said cable so that said cable can be
positioned vertically within said channel and lie
wholly within said channel without projecting
downwardly beyond said bottom wall;
said cable being flexible allowing a user to
selectively position said cable in any one of said
channels so as to direct said cable away from said
housing in a direction selected by the user and
minimize interference between the cable and the user’s
hand during operation of said pointing device; and
tab means located in said channels for
frictionally holding said cable in place in the one of
said channels where said cable is positioned by the
user.
Opinion
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 1 and 4-7 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Aoki, Haskins and
Kirchgessner.
The claimed invention is directed to a handheld trackball
pointing device for use with a computer. A cable is included for
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