Appeal No. 1998-0631
Application 07/957,990
unreasonable. We agree with the Examiner's reasoning that
one of ordinary skill in the art would have had sufficient
skill to recognize that the keys in "Human Factor" could be
any keys, including keys at the corners of the keyboard. In
addition, however, the "Human Factor" publication states
that "[t]he biofeedback inputs can be any of a number of
known input devices including . . . force transducers under
the keyboard to measure key depression force and other
equivalent devices" (p. 478). Thus, the "Human Factor"
publication indicates that the pressure sensors can be under
the keyboard. In our opinion, it would have been within the
level of skill of one of ordinary skill in the art to locate
the pressure sensors under the keyboard at the four corners
for reasons of stability. For these reasons, we sustain the
rejection of claim 206.
We recommend the Examiner apply the article by Rempel
et al. (Rempel), Fingertip Forces While Using Three
Different Keyboards, Proc. of the Human Factors Soc'y, 35th
Annual Meeting, 1991, pp. 253-255, in combination in any
future prosecution. Rempel discloses measuring vertical
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