Appeal No. 1998-1775
Application 08/249,611
We turn first to the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 3
and 5 through 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Nash
in view of Martin.
Nash discloses a forearm support to reduce fatigue during
the extended manipulation of a computer mouse. The forearm
support has a forward portion 12 which is supported at a
declination to a rearward portion 14. Nash also discloses
that:
It is intended that a forearm can
be positioned lengthwise along
the support 10 with the forward
portion of the forearm of the
user position[ed] at the forward
portion 12 with the wrist of the
user extending forwardly from the
forward portion 12 of the support
10. [Col. 2, lines 4 to 9].
Martin discloses a support block for supporting the hand
and wrist of a computer user and a retainer for retaining a
computer mouse in fixed relation to the support block. The
examiner states:
It would have been obvious to one
having ordinary skill in the art
at the time of the invention was
made to modify Nash ‘835 to
include a computer mouse
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