Appeal No. 1998-0876
Application 08/269,703
allows the terminal to have a small footprint on the checkout
counter (specification, p. 3). Appellants argue that Vassigh
teaches an integrated terminal and fails to teach a computer
or retail terminal with first and second portions having
different housings. The Examiner finds that the "first
portion having a housing including a display" reads on the
display 22 and the "second portion having a housing different
than the housing of the first portion and coupled to the first
portion including a processor" reads on the housing 24 (FR2;
EA4).
We hold that the Examiner's findings as to Vassigh are
erroneous. Vassigh discloses that figure 1 shows "a
perspective view of the data terminal device . . . generally
indicated by the number 20 which includes a touch screen
panel 22 mounted in the top surface 24 of the terminal device"
(col. 3, lines 50-54). Figure 2 shows the touch screen
panel 22 in the top surface 24 of the terminal device with the
electronics 34 and 38 for the panel located within the
terminal device. Even if we read the phrase "a housing
different than the housing of the first portion" broadly, the
terminal device does not have a different housing from the
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