Appeal No. 2000-0121
Application No. 08/773,665
Each of independent claims 56 and 58 sets forth a locking
system comprising, inter alia, a portable electronic device
having an external wall provided with a specially designed
generally rectangular slot, a housing including a slot engagement
member, with the slot engagement member being rotatable between
an unlocked position and a locked position, and a pin adapted to
interlock the housing and extend into the slot.2
We next address the Jacobi reference relied upon by the
examiner in support of the anticipation rejection of claim 56.
The patent to Jacobi discloses a lock device for locking a
pivoted door handle of a refrigerator door (Figs. 1, 4, and 5).
As expressly set forth by the patentee (column 3, lines 11
through 23), the stem 23 is semi-circular in cross-section and
tilted to permit insertion and withdrawal from round holes 21 and
22. The stem 23 is secured against such tilting by
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