Ex parte ISHIZAWA et al. - Page 5




          Appeal No. 1999-0891                                       Page 5           
          Application No. 08/676,484                                                  


          limitations: "one pair of speakers provided on the frame so                 
          that the speakers are separated by the display element body,                
          the speakers being arranged along a rotation axis of the                    
          display element.”  Also similarly, claim 26 specifies in                    
          pertinent part the following limitations: “a frame supporting               
          and surrounding the display element body, the frame having one              
          pair of speakers therein, the speakers being separated by the               
          display element body and arranged along a rotation axis of the              
          display element.”  Accordingly, claims 15-22 and 24-26 require              
          inter alia a pair of speakers arranged along a rotation axis                
          of a display element with one speaker at each side of the                   
          element.                                                                    


               The examiner fails to show a teaching or suggestion of                 
          the limitations in the applied prior art.  Morris teaches that              
          “[p]ortable computer 10 includes a housing having first and                 
          second compartments 12 and 14 connected by hinge means 16 for               
          pivoting the compartments to relative open and closed                       
          positions as is well known in the art.  [M]eans such as                     
          detachable liquid crystal display screen 18 displays                        
          information from the computer when the compartments are in the              







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