Appeal No. 1998-3403
Application No. 08/336,342
of such a controller.
The argument that there is no evidence that it would have been
obvious to include a controller for a PCMCIA card slot in a
docking station is unpersuasive because, as noted by the examiner,
controllers are required to support communication between card
slots and computers. Without controllers, PCMCIA cards would not
be functional. We note that in appellants’ claim 2, and the
SUMMARY OF
THE INVENTION at page 2 of their brief, appellants recite “a
controller in the docking station to provide the necessary
hardware interface between the PCMCIA card slot and the portable
computer” (emphasis added).
With respect to the requirement for a teaching, suggestion or
motivation to combine the prior art, Amini is simply utilized to
show a controller providing the necessary hardware interface
between a PCMCIA card slot and a portable computer. As for
Swindler, we agree with the examiner that it would have been
obvious to have Kikinis’ docking station include connection means
for coupling to an external monitor to allow the user to have
means of displaying data on a larger monitor than the LCD display
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