Appeal No. 1997-2150
Application No. 08/350,777
suggests mounting a display in a second hollow body hingedly
attached to the first hollow body." Villa-Real, however,
discloses an upper housing 7 (or first hollow body) and a main
housing 1 (or second hollow body), connected via an inter-
linking stem 8 that links the two housings "in a flip-flop
fashion" (see column 3, lines 16-19). Figure 2 demonstrates
how the upper housing bends towards the lower housing, and
Figure 1 shows a concave portion in the main housing that is
the same shape and size as the upper housing combined with the
inter-linking stem. Therefore, we find that Villa-Real
discloses two hollow bodies hingedly attached. Further,
Villa-Real shows in Figure 1 a display window 2 in main
housing 1, or the second hollow body, as claimed.
Since Villa-Real uses a small direct view display, the
examiner turns to Wells for a teaching for a miniature virtual
image display. The examiner states (Answer, pages 3-4) that
it would have been obvious to modify Villa-Real's device to
include a miniature virtual image display "to provide a
telephone handset which incorporates a full page of text or
graphics information display which is compact and space-
efficient." Although the examiner fails to point to any
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