Appeal No. 2005-1785
Application No. 10/164,853
may be selectively adapted to operate in an inactive operation
mode, an input operation mode, an output operation mode or a
combination thereof” (col. 3, lines 14-16). In one embodiment,
two interfaces that face each other when the housings are in the
folded position are in the inactive operation mode (col. 5,
lines 39-45). When the housings are folded together, a detector,
preferably a reed switch, in one housing portion comes into
proximity with a magnet in the other housing portion which
activates the detector, thereby causing a first position signal
to be sent to a microprocessor which sends a signal to the
appropriate user interface in accordance with the programmed
operation mode of the device (col. 6, line 46 - col. 7, line 13).
The examiner argues that “[f]igure 12 shows an embodiment in
which one user interface has been moved over (folded over)
another user interface and only the outer user interface is
active[,] inner interfaces being inactive” (answer, page 6).
Kfoury’s discussion of figure 10 (col. 5, lines 39-45) indicates
that the inner interfaces in figure 12 are inactive. Kfoury,
however, indicates that each housing portion can have a user
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