Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
grouped. The rejection of claims 26, 97, 117, and 119 is
sustained.
35 U.S.C. § 103
Claims 12, 14-16, 25, 45-47, 114-116,
118, 138-140, 206, 210, and 211
Seventh issue - claim 206
The Examiner states (OA12):
[W]here the "Human Factor" publication teaches using
pressure transducers with selected ones of the keys,
the transducers thus "collect data" from selected
points on the keyboard; one skilled in the art would
have appreciated that such "selected points" may be
varied as to (i) the desired number of points, and (ii)
the desired physical arrangement of the points on the
keyboard, to achieve the desired result. Therefore, it
would have been obvious to choose as the "selected
points" in the "Human Factor" publication the four
"corners" of the keyboard, i.e. under keys closest to
the corresponding corners.
Appellant argues that had the claims been twice
rejected, Appellant could have had the opportunity to ask,
in view of In re Ahlert, 424 F.2d 1088, 165 USPQ 418 (CCPA
1970), for a statement by the Examiner of the basis the
reasoning (Br21). Appellant argues that since the claim is
on appeal, it can only be argued that the obviousness
rejection must fail due to absence of any statement of the
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