Appeal No. 2001-1427
Application No. 09/107,795
In any event, applying Stein to independent claim 1, Stein clearly discloses an
electronic device, viz., a personal computer, with a housing and a peripheral device slot
201 within the housing. The slot has a peripheral device interface (slot connector 204).
Stein also teaches a peripheral device card (modular unit 131) removably secured
within the slot such that a first end of the “card” is connected to the interface (connector
133 on the modular unit connects to slot connector 204). With regard to a “power
connector interface,” Stein discloses an internal power supply 290 (Figure 12) which
provides power from the electronic device independent of the peripheral device
interface. An adaptor removably secured to a second end of the card is clearly seen in
Figure 10 of Stein. That adaptor comprises elements 142 and 154 to which the
antenna is connected. The adaptor is connected, albeit via the modular unit, or “card”
131, to the peripheral device interface 204.
While not shown as being connected to a power connector interface 290 in
Figure 10, because power is supplied by external supply 250, the examiner seems to
imply that, viewing the embodiments of Figure 10 and Figure 12 as a whole, wherein
each figure discloses either an internal power supply or an external power supply, but
not both, it would have been equally obvious to have both an external power supply with
an antenna (as in Figure 10) and an internal power supply (as in Figure 12). In our
view, the examiner’s rationale is clearly based on impermissible hindsight.
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