Appeal No. 2005-0860
Application No. 09/363,728
We also shall not sustain standing 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of claim 5, which depends from claim 1, as being
unpatentable over Bocker in view of Cargin. For the reasons set
forth above, Cargin does not cure the admitted failure of Bocker
to meet the recitation in parent claim 1 of the “numerical”
keypad.
III. The 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of claim 3 as being
unpatentable over Davis ‘943 in view of Koenck and Davis ‘966
Davis ‘943 discloses a docking apparatus for a handheld data
entry terminal 4 having a keypad 10, a display 12, a bar code
reader, rechargeable batteries and contact pads 80. The docking
apparatus 2 comprises a frame 20 for receiving the data entry
terminal, contact elements 32 for engaging the contact pads 80 on
the terminal, an electrical connector 76 for connecting to
external means for recharging the terminal’s batteries and
communicating with a centralized computer system, and a circuit
board 48 operatively linking the contact members 32 and the
electrical connector 76. In use,
[a]s the need arises to recharge the internal
batteries of . . . data entry terminal 4, or to feed
data to or collect data from said data entry terminal
4, the data entry terminal 4 may be placed in a frame
20 such that the contact pads 80 . . . of data entry
terminal 4 engage and depress the contact elements 32
. . . of frame 20. Since contact pads 80 and contact
elements 32 are electrically conductive, the engagement
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