Appeal No. 2004-0269 Page 4
Application No. 09/589,866
over or relative to the chips 17 for reading the chips and displaying information for each
associated page on its digital display. Luciano discloses that the “reader 11 is provided
with a conventional key chain attachment 22 for storage securement to the book or
elsewhere for storage” (column 2, lines 44-46).
According to the examiner (final rejection, pages 2-3),
[a]lthough Luciano did not show a key actually attach[ed] to
the key chain, it is inherent that a key chain typically includes
a key. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art to modify the educational device of
Peckham with teaching of providing an educational device
attached to a key chain or ring as taught by Luciano for the
purpose of allowing the user to conveniently carry the device
around.
At the outset, we do not share the examiner’s view (answer, pages 3-4) that
Luciano’s use of the terminology “a conventional key chain attachment 22" clearly
indicates a desire for the reader 11 to be attached with keys. Luciano makes it clear in
column 2, lines 44-46, that the purpose of the key chain attachment 22 is for
securement to the book or elsewhere for storage. The terminology “conventional key
chain attachment” is merely intended to describe the structure of the attachment device
in terms with which one skilled in the art reading the patent would be expected to be
familiar. Luciano in no way teaches or suggests attachment of a key to the key chain
attachment attached to the reader 11.
In any event, even assuming Luciano were interpreted as teaching or suggesting
attachment of a key to the key chain attachment 22, it is not apparent to us how the
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