Ex Parte HELOT et al - Page 3



            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.”                                                                   
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