Appeal No. 1998-0925
Application No. 08/588,836
We agree with the examiner insofar as connection of the
speakers in IBM causing the speakers and the computer keyboard
to become “integrated.” However, we do not see how such
connection causes the speaker(s) to become “mounted within”
the computer keyboard. The speakers may be considered to be
mounted “on” the computer keyboard in IBM but they cannot
reasonably be considered to be mounted “within” the computer
keyboard.
Accordingly, we will not sustain the rejection of claims
1 through 4, 6 and 11 through 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based
on IBM. Since neither APA1 or APA2 or APA3 provides for the
deficiency of IBM, we also will not sustain the examiner’s
rejection of claims 7 through 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Turning now to the rejection of claims 16 through 19
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based on IBM and Aoki, we will sustain
this rejection since Aoki, in Figure 3, clearly provides the
teaching which would have led the artisan to provide for a
speaker integrated into and mounted within the computer
keyboard. Appellants, for their part, provide no argument
against this rejection and provide no comments whatsoever with
regard to the Aoki reference, preferring, instead, to rely on
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