Appeal No. 2005-1785
Application No. 10/164,853
that is currently addressable to the user further includes
activating the illumination of that user interface 10 that is
currently addressable to the user” (page 5, lines 12-14). The
originally filed specification, therefore, would have reasonably
conveyed to one of ordinary skill in the art that as of the
filing date of the application, the appellants were in possession
of illuminating only a first user interface.
For the above reasons we reverse the rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph.
Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103
Each of the appellants’ independent claims requires
illuminating a first user interface but not a second user
interface.
Kfoury discloses a handheld electronic device, such as a
cellular radiotelephone, having two housing portions, one of
which has at least two user interfaces and the other of which has
at least one user interface (col. 3, lines 3-6). The housing
portions are connected to each other by a swivel hinge that
permits the housing portions to be rotated and folded together
such that in the folded position, any selected user interface on
one housing portion can face any selected user interface on the
other housing portion (col. 3, lines 6-14). “Each user interface
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