Appeal No. 2000-0267 Page 13
Application No. 08/856,943
bias to disengage the telephone.” (Reply Br. at 2.) They
further assert, “even if the two references could be properly
combined, they still do not suggest the combined features of
Claim 23.” (Appeal Br. at 10.)
Claim 23 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "the housing must be displaced against the spring
bias to disengage the housing from the element disposed on the
cradle member . . . .” Accordingly, the claim require inter
alia that a housing must displace a spring to disengage it
from a cradle.
Starting with the anticipation rejection, Tomura
discloses that a battery pack attached to a portable telephone
must be displaced against charging springs to engage it with a
battery charger. Specifically, “[w]hen the portable telephone
250 is mounted to the charger 210, the charging terminals 236
of the charger 210 are deformed elastically and come into
pressure contact with the charging terminals of the battery
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