Appeal No. 1999-0653 Page 2
Application No. 08/226,564
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to security devices for portable equipment and, more
specifically, to devices used to prevent theft of computers and other office equipment
(specification, page 1) as well as a method of using such devices (claims 15-17). Further
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 1 and 9,
which appear in the appendix to the appellant's brief, and claim 15, a copy of which is attached
to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Schou 1,470,937 Oct. 16, 1923
Murray, Jr. et al. (Murray) 5,502,989 Apr. 2, 19962
The following rejections are before us for review.3
Claim 13 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, on the basis that the
specification fails to adequately teach how to make and/or use the invention.
1(...continued)
claims 1, 2 and 15 was added in the answer.
2This patent, which issued on application No. 08/307,113, filed September 16, 1994, is a division of
application No. 08/138,634, filed October 15, 1993, which issued as U.S. Patent No. 6,000,251 on December 14,
1999.
3The rejections of claim 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, claims 1, 6, 9 and 14 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(e) and claims 10 and 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) or 103 set forth in the final rejection have been
withdrawn (answer, pages 4, 5, 10, 12 and 13).
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