Ex Parte Rudow et al - Page 3




          Appeal No. 2003-0628                                                        
          Application No. 09/860,493                                 Page 3           


          the applied prior art.  Accordingly we will sustain the                     
          examiner's rejection for essentially those reasons expressed in             
          the final rejection and examiner's answer, and we add the                   
          following primarily for emphasis.                                           
               Appellants (brief, page 8) state that each claim “stands or            
          falls together with the others.”  Also, appellants do not furnish           
          separate arguments for each claim on appeal.  See 37 CFR                    
          § 1.192(c)(7) and (c)(8)(2002) and In re McDaniel, 293 F.3d 1379,           
          1383, 63 USPQ2d 1462, 1465 (Fed. Cir. 2002) (“if the brief fails            
          to meet either requirement, the Board is free to select a single            
          claim from each group of claims subject to a common ground of               
          rejection as representative of all claims in that group and to              
          decide the appeal of that rejection based solely on the selected            
          representative claim”).  Consequently, we select claim 13, as the           
          representative claim, on which we decide this appeal as to the              
          examiner’s rejection.                                                       
               Appellants do not dispute the examiner’s determination that            
          Bonito teaches subject matter substantially embraced by                     
          representative claim 13 but for the claimed display monitor                 
          location.  In this regard, Bonito discloses a golf cart body, a             
          roof with an underside mounted thereon, and a display monitor as            
          part of a mobile computer for displaying golf course information,           







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