Appeal No. 2000-1593
Application 08/724,459
The examiner responds that the central question is
whether the claimed phrase “allowing the radio transceiver to be
received within a PCMCIA slot” should be interpreted to mean that
the transceiver is housed within a PCMCIA slot. The examiner
notes that appellants’ own disclosure in Figure 2 shows the
transceiver located outside of the notebook computer. The
examiner finds, therefore, that the quoted phrase does not
require that the transceiver be located within the housing, but
only that the transceiver signals can be received within a PCMCIA
slot, that is, merely that the transceiver can interface to a
PCMCIA slot [answer, pages 5-6].
We agree with the position of the examiner as set forth
in the answer. The examiner simply proposes to replace the RS232
interface of Suomi with a PCMCIA slot. Appellants essentially
admit that this substitution would present little difficulty if
the artisan were motivated to use a PCMCIA connection in Suomi
[brief, page 5]. As noted above, appellants’ position on this
substitution is that the radio transceiver would not be received
within the PCMCIA slot.
We agree with the examiner that the artisan would have
been motivated to replace the RS232 connection of Suomi with a
PCMCIA slot connection so that the transceiver of Suomi could
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