Appeal No. 96-1904
Application 08/164,854
(Germany) (Leipzig)2 3
IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, “KEYBOARD FOR HANDHELD
COMPUTER,” Vol. 27, No. 10A, pages 5643 through 5645, March,
1985 (IBM reference)
The following rejections are before us for review.
Claims 1 and 3 through 8 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, for the reason that the
specification, as originally filed, does not provide support
for the recitation that the keyboard may be operated
“independently of supporting surfaces” (claim 1).
Claims 20 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
112, second paragraph, as being broad to the extent that they
2Our understanding of this document is derived from a
reading of a translation thereof prepared in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. A copy of the translation was
appended to the examiner’s answer (Paper No. 14).
3We will refer to this reference as the Leipzig document
for consistency with the usage by both the examiner and
appellant.
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