Appeal No. 1998-0925
Application No. 08/588,836
their argument relating to claim 1 and the IBM reference as to
the lack of a teaching of speakers being integrated with and
mounted within the computer keyboard.
Accordingly, we will sustain the rejection of claims 16
through 21 since the rejections of these claims rely, in
pertinent part, on Aoki in combination with IBM and appellants
fail to argue the merits of Aoki or of claims 17 through 21,
individually.
We make the following new ground of rejection in
accordance with 37 CFR1.196(b):
Claims 1 and 11 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over IBM and Aoki.
Aoki clearly suggests at least one speaker “integrated
into and mounted within” the computer keyboard, as claimed.
As to whether or not Aoki discloses or suggests the claimed
“electrical coupling for passing current of varying
frequency...,” to whatever extent Aoki might be unclear on
this, IBM’s disclosure of “a cable 5, which includes lines
transmitting stereo audio signals to unit 1" would have made
it clear to artisans that the cable connecting the computer
system and the keyboard would be used for passing current of
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