Appeal No. 95-3338
Application 07/994,035
The examiner has presented no evidence of any computer
cover having a window. But, even if we agree that some cassette
players might have a window through a cover so as to permit
inspection of the amount of audio or video tape on the feed and
take-up spools, the examiner has given us no evidence to suggest
why a skilled artisan would have been led to adapt such a
teaching to provide for a window in the cover of a computer so
that a portion of the computer screen may be viewed with the
cover in the closed position.
Of course, we can agree that windows, per se, were old
and well known, but that is no reason, without more, to include a
window in the cover of a computer. A window in cassette players
for observing tape quantity used and/or remaining is simply not
relevant, in our view, to placing a window in the cover of a
computer to permit viewing of a portion of a computer screen with
the cover in the closed position. It would appear that the only
suggestion for providing such a window comes from appellants' own
disclosure and that disclosure may not properly be the basis for
a finding of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103.
In the alternative rejection of the claims under 35
U.S.C. 103, the examiner relies on York for everything but the
claimed hinges and write-on features and cites Moser for the
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