Appeal No. 2002-0161 Page 4
Application No. 09/348,615
Figure 4 embodiment of Lechman, notes that Lechman discloses a display (monitor 60)
mounted in a recess (bore 52A) flush with a desk top (top surface 14 of work table or
platform 12), with “a ledge 58A extending around the periphery of the bore just beneath
the work table 12 for supporting the monitor” (see column 4, lines 1-5, of Lechman).
According to the examiner (answer, page 3),
[a]nyone using the desk could easily lift the display and slide
it along the supporting peripheral walls and by resting the
display partly in the recess and against the ledge 56A. Thus
providing a inclined viewing position. Therefore the structure
shown in Figure 4 meets the Appellant’s claims. The ability
of a person using the desk to move the display to an inclined
position and an upside down position is inherent to the
structure shown in Figure 4.
We presume that the examiner means that the monitor 60 can be maintained in
an inclined position and situated at least partly above the top surface 14 of the work
table or platform 12 at one end, with top and bottom edges of the opposite end of the
display supported, respectively, by a first of the peripheral walls 56A and a portion of
the ledge 58A and with the rear surface of the monitor 60 supported by the edge at the
intersection of the top surface 14 of the work table or platform 12 and the peripheral
wall 56A opposite the first of the peripheral walls 56A. We interpret the examiner’s
remarks on page 2 of the final rejection as a determination that the monitor 60 is
2 (...continued)
1565, 1576, 18 USPQ2d 1001, 1010 (Fed. Cir. 1991). It is not necessary that the reference teach what
the subject application teaches, but only that the claim read on something disclosed in the reference, i.e.,
that all of the limitations in the claim be found in or fully met by the reference. Kalman v. Kimberly Clark
Corp., 713 F.2d 760, 772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1026 (1984).
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