Appeal No. 2001-1863
Application No. 08/603,665
The connections do not require any leads and the interface
module is easily removable from the portable telephone as well as
from the computer. The invention is adequately described at
pages 2 and 3 of the brief and also is well illustrated in Fig. 7,
Fig. 10, and Fig. 13 of the disclosure. The following claim
further illustrates the invention.
1. A telecommunications apparatus, comprising:
a portable telephone having an interface; and
an interface module removably connected to said portable
telephone along one and only one surface of said portable
telephone, said interface module having a first interface directly
connected to said portable telephone interface; and a second
interface, coupled to said first interface, said second interface
facilitating a direct physical and electrical connection to a
computer interface.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Morris 5,020,090 May 28, 1991
Braitberg et al. (Braitberg) 5,333,177 July 26, 1994
O’Sullivan 5,353,334 Oct. 4, 1994
Gulick et al. (Gulick) 5,555,287 Sep. 10, 1996
(filed Jul. 21, 1992)
Mizoguchi et al. (Mizoguchi) 5,566,226 Oct. 15, 1996
(filed May 26, 1995)
Claims 1-12 and 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
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