Appeal No. 2005-1481
Application 10/236,601
THE REJECTION
Claims 1 and 3 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Rosen in view of Petrich.
Attention is directed to the brief (filed August 12, 2004)
and answer (mailed October 21, 2004) for the respective positions
of the appellants and examiner regarding the merits of this
rejection.
DISCUSSION
Rosen, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses an
adjustable, multi-positional display monitor which can be used in
a variety of home and office settings (see column 1, lines 17
through 28; and column 6, lines 53 through 55). As described in
the reference,
a display monitor unit is shown generally at 10,
the display monitor unit including a base or swivel
portion 12, an arm or pivot portion 14, and a rotatable
display screen 16. . . . [T]he base, the arm and the
display screen are rotatable about three separate axes,
axis A, axis B, and axis C, to accommodate viewing of
the display screen regardless of a viewer's orientation
to the display monitor unit.
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