Appeal No. 1998-0925
Application No. 08/588,836
varying frequency corresponding to sound waves reproduced by
the speaker during use.
With regard to the specifics of claim 11 wherein left and
right channel speakers are employed, the artisan viewing the
stereo system of IBM together with Aoki’s teaching of
providing a speaker integrated with and mounted within the
keyboard would have been led to the claimed combination.
While we do not herein enter a new ground of rejection
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 with regard to dependent claims 2
through 10 and 12 through 15, we do not mean to imply that we
view these claims as patentable over the prior art. Rather,
we leave any such rejection(s) of these claims to the good
auspices of the examiner after the examiner has had an
opportunity to thoroughly review the Aoki teachings in
combination with other prior art previously applied by the
examiner in view of our new application of Aoki against
independent claims 1 and 11.
We have sustained the rejections of claims 16 through 21
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We have not sustained the rejections
of claims 1 through 4 and 6 through 15 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
We have also entered a new ground of rejection against claims
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