Appeal No. 2000-0267 Page 20
Application No. 08/856,943
and 28, which depend from claim 26. We conclude with the
fourth group of claims.
IV. Claims 32-34
The examiner asserts that Tomura's “phone (250) is a
battery housing. The middle or top end of the battery housing
is the location of lug (218).” (Examiner’s Answer at 9.) He
further asserts, “the element is identified as Mattinger's
loop (111), the middle slot is Mattinger's slot (108).
Further, Mattinger is a battery operating device, the device
houses the battery. Therefore, the device simply can be
considered as the battery housing.” (Id. at 12.) The
appellants argue, “[i]n Tomura the lug (218) engages the
housing of the telephone; not the housing which the battery is
disposed within. In Mattinger et al. there is no indication
of where the battery is located in the hair cutter (103), much
less that the loop (11) engages the battery housing. In
addition, the loop (111) is on the adapter (105); not on the
cradle (101).” (Appeal Br. at 13.)
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