Appeal No. 96-4097
Application 08/138,634
The invention in issue concerns apparatus for inhibiting
the theft of portable equipment, such as computers. The
appealed claims are reproduced in the appendix to appellants'
brief, except that claim 59 therein does not include the
additions made by the amendment filed April 26, 1996 (Paper
No. 24).
The references applied in rejecting the appealed claims
are:2
Wilson 5,082,232 Jan. 21, 1992
Lalanne FR 2,636,686 Mar. 23, 1990
(French patent)
Rimanek DE 3,824,393 Jul. 27, 1989
(German Patent)
The claims on appeal stand rejected as follows:
(1) Claims 56 to 63, unpatentable over Wilson in view of
Lalanne under 35 USC § 103;
(2) Claims 59, 61 and 62, anticipated by Rimanek, under
35 USC § 102(b).
Rejection (1)
2Our understanding of the Lalanne and Rimanek references is derived from
translations thereof prepared for the PTO, copies of which are forwarded
herewith to appellants. References in this decision to pages and lines of
Lalanne or Rimanek are to pages and lines of the translations.
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