Appeal No. 97-2876
Application 08/335,008
requirement to satisfy the written description requirement
since clearly the concept of a mixed, or perhaps third,
embodiment of the claimed invention was clearly contemplated
by the inventors as originally filed. In view of the
foregoing, the decision of the examiner rejecting the claims
44 to 48 and 52 to 58 under the written description portion of
35 U.S.C. § 112 is reversed.
Turning to the rejection of claims 43, 50 to 52 and 54
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in light of the collective teachings of
Meyerle in view of Schofield, we reverse this rejection. On
the one hand, Meyerle teaches a telephone station set in
representative Fig. 1 of this reference mounted on a sun visor
10 for use in an automobile to which various controls are
shown to be attached and associated with the telephone set. A
modified version of Fig. 1 and Fig. 7 shows that such controls
are mounted on a control unit module box 49.
On the other hand, Schofield teaches primarily an adapter
for removably mounting an interior rear-view mirror assembly,
which is not explicitly disclosed in Schofield per se. Figure
19 of this reference shows a microphone sensor 186 mounted
within a microphone housing 180 which forms a part of the
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