Appeal No. 1999-1697
Application No. 08/550,270 Page 12
taking of Official notice by the examiner that this feature is
old and well known. In view of: the combined teachings of: (a)
the Official notice taken by the examiner (answer, pages 4 and 5)
that “with modems as well as PCMCIA adapter interfaces it is well
known to mount boards within casings (for component protection,
for example), and that a connection must be made from the board
to the exterior. In a typical PCMCIA interface, as well as other
types of plug-in interfaces, this connection is made with a board
mounted connector, through an aperture.” which has not been
specifically traversed by appellants2; (b)Hartley's disclosure
that modem 3 (figure 3) can be either a plug-in card or
integrated into the main PC board; and (c)Blackwell's disclosure
that analog and digital devices (col. 2, lines 55 and 56) are
built on cards, we find that the prior art would have suggested
that the communications device could be attached to the computer
in a number of equivalent ways, and that an artisan would have
been motivated to install the data communications device of
Blackwell as a plug-in carrier board accessible from outside
2 We observe that the examiner has cited U.S. Patent 5,430,618 to
Huang to support the examiner's position of Official notice. Because
appellants have not specifically traversed the examiner's holding, and the
examiner has not positively included Huang in the statement of the rejection,
we need not address the teachings of Huang, which was not formally included in
the statement of the rejection.
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