Appeal No. 1997-3719 Page 6
Application No. 08/559,156
the references to arrive at the claimed invention. See In re
Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir.
1988) and In re Lintner, 458 F.2d 1013, 1016, 173 USPQ 560,
562 (CCPA 1972).
The teachings of the applied prior art are set forth on
page 4 of the answer. The examiner ascertained (answer, p. 4)
that Silicon Sports lacks "a front wall on the upper cover
section, a keyboard base cover and a flap adapted to cover a
computer component as recited in claim 1." The examiner then
determined (answer, pp. 4-5) that these differences would have
been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person
having ordinary skill in the art.
The appellant argues that the applied prior art does not
suggest the claimed subject matter. We agree.
All the claims under appeal require the front wall of the
keyboard base cover section and the front wall of the screen
cover section to be "thin enough to allow the base keyboard
section and the screen section [of the computer] to be pivoted
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