Appeal No. 2001-0007
Application No. 08/956,974
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before
us, and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims
1 through 13 and 15 through 17.
In Cheng, a fan 31 located in the portable computer
3 forces hot air out of the portable computer and into the
docking station 4 where it is vented out an exhaust hole
424 (column 2, line 62 through column 3, line 7; Figures 3
and 5).
The examiner acknowledges (answer, page 4) that Cheng
does not have a fan in the docking station. For such a
teaching, the examiner turned to Donahoe (answer, page 4).
Based upon the teaching in Donahoe (column 8, lines 3
through 7) that “[i]f desired, the . . . heat sink 126 and
fan 128 [may be] correspondingly relocated within the
housing 114 as necessary,” the examiner concludes (answer,
page 5) that “[i]t would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made
to incorporate the teachings of Donahoe et al. in . . . the
apparatus of Cheng to aid in cooling both the portable
computer and the docking station.”
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