Appeal No. 2005-0485
Application No. 09/303,632
Therefore, we shall sustain standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of claim 37 as being unpatentable over Yanagisawa in
view of Adair.
III. The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claims 33 and 34 as
being unpatentable over Yanagisawa in view of Adair and either
Okamura or Young
Claim 33 depends from independent claim 32 and requires the
sheet to have a strip of adhesive along its top edge portion for
attachment to a keyboard. Claim 34 depends from claim 32 and
requires the sheet to have a pair of spaced strips of adhesive
along its top and bottom edge portions for attachment to a
keyboard. Conceding that Yanagisawa lacks these features, the
examiner turns to either Okamura or Young.
Okamura discloses a molded plastic keyboard overlay 30
secured in place by upper and lower adhesive layers or strips 44
and 48, and Young discloses a clear, flexible, protective
keyboard cover secured in place with adhesive tape. Either of
these disclosures would have provided the artisan with ample
suggestion to replace Yanagisawa’s elastic fixing part with upper
and/or lower adhesive strips as a simple matter of substituting
one art-recognized keyboard cover securing alternative with
another.
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