Appeal No. 2004-0975
Application No. 09/793,595
From our study of the claims on appeal within 37 CFR § 41.50 we
reject claims 19 and 22 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph. These
claims are essentially incomplete and/or misdescriptive. Inasmuch as
claim 22 depends from claim 11, claim 22 should recite that the display
output consists of the display output from directly underneath the display
of said portable computer when the display screen of said portable
computer is placed over the display screen of the first computer. To be
consistent with the other independent claims on appeal and the disclosed
invention, this is the proper, complete manner in which to recite this
feature intended to be set forth in claim 22. Compare the recitation in
dependent claim 24 which depends from independent claim 23.
As to independent claim 19, there is no antecedent basis within the
claim of “said second computer” which is recited at least three times in this
claim in clause b thereof. This only indicates a feature of an absent but
clearly implied first computer. The feature of redirecting at the end of
claim 19 does not recite to which item recited the information is to be
redirected to. Similarly, the recitation of said “second computer” at the
end of claim 19 should probably read said “first computer,” otherwise claim
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