Appeal No. 2001-0004 Application No. 08/961,580 Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number 11), the brief (paper number 18) and the answer (paper number 19) for the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner. OPINION We have carefully considered the entire record before us, and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 15. Leman discloses a docking station connector 20 in a tray portion 16 of a docking station for receiving a docking port presumably located on the back surface of a notepad computer 18 (Figures 2, 3 and 4). According to the examiner (final rejection, page 2), “Leman et al. lacks the teaching of a mobile computing device having a keyboard on a first surface.” The examiner turns to Ma for a teaching of a “mobile computing device having a keyboard on a first surface,” and concludes that “[i]t would have bee [sic, been] obvious to one or [sic, of] ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to use any type of portable device in the apparatus of Leman et al.” 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007