Appeal No. 2005-0121
Application No. 10/074,154
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to “a securable mousepad having a hidden writing surface as well
as a method of using the same” (specification, page 1). Representative claims 1 and 5 read as
follows:
1. An apparatus for storing information, the apparatus comprising:
a mousepad having an opaque top layer;
a surface on which the information is written wherein the surface is situated below the
opaque top layer of the mousepad in a first position wherein the surface has a planar area
substantially equal in size to a planar area of the opaque top layer; and
a tray that slides to a second position to expose the surface on which the information is
written from under the opaque top layer of the mousepad.
5. A method for using a mousepad and for storing information, the method comprising
the steps of:
providing a mousepad having an opaque top layer and a surface on which the information
is written below the opaque top layer of the mousepad in a first position wherein the opaque top
layer has a surface area substantially equal in size to a surface area of the surface on which the
information is written; and
providing a tray that slides between the first position and a second position wherein the
second position exposes the surface on which the information is written from under the opaque
top layer of the surface on which the information is written.
THE REJECTIONS
Claims 1 and 3 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over U.S. Patent No. 5,692,815 to Murphy.
Claims 1 and 3 through 7 also stand provisionally rejected under the judicially created
doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting over claims 1 through 10, 12 through 14 and 17 of
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