Appeal No. 97-3423
Application 08/336,134
rejection of claim 5 is reversed because Swindler's travel
plate (i.e., tray) 108 does not extend from the housing even
when it is in the ejection position shown in Figure 20D (col.
14, lines 49-50). Consequently, the rejection of dependent
claims 6-8, which depend on claim 5, is also reversed. For
the same reason as claim 5, the rejection of similar claim 14
and its dependent claims 15-17 is reversed.
Claim 9 specifies that the means for customizing is a
configuration utility developed for the docking system
environment. The rejection of this claim and similar claim 18
is affirmed for the reasons given above with respect to the
independent claims.
The rejection of claim 21, which calls for customizing a
hardware configuration in the portable computer, is affirmed
because, as already noted, Swindler's hardware configuration
software is capable of accommodating new PCMCIA cards inserted
into the notebook computer after it has been docked in the
docking station. For the same reason, the rejection of
similar claim 26 is affirmed.
The rejection of claim 22, which calls for customizing a
hardware configuration in the docking station, is affirmed
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