Appeal No. 96-2444
Application 08/360,194
separate "case-closed" button to put the computer into a sleep
mode.
THE REJECTION
Claim 1-38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Carter. As noted supra, we also consider
the admitted prior art in the rejection.
We refer to the Office action entered September 23, 1992,
(Paper No. 4), the first Final Rejection entered
April 7, 1993, (Paper No. 7), and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 25) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
examiner's position and to the Brief (Paper No. 24) (pages
referred to as "Br__") for appellants' position.
OPINION
There are four main features in the claims: (1) a single
switch on a portable computer that performs multiple functions
(independent claims 1, 2, 4, 30, and 32 recite that the switch
changes power management modes; independent claim 3 recites
that the switch indicates a user power management command or a
case closed condition); (2) the number of modes (independent
claims 1, 2, 4, and 32 recite three modes; independent claim 3
recites no particular modes, but that momentary actuation is
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