Appeal No. 2005-2268 Page 18
Application No. 09/976,683
be made transparent so as not to obscure a promotional program being shown on the
display.
Because one of ordinary skill in the art would have recognized that
electrochromic panels could be darkened to form an opaque privacy shield about
White's video keypad to blocks a third party from seeing a user's entry of a PIN, and
such panels could be made transparent so as not to obscure a promotional program
being displayed, we conclude that those skilled in the art would have been motivated to
embody White's barriers as electrochromic panels. Therefore, we affirm the
obviousness rejection of claim 3 and of claim 12, which falls therewith.
III. CONCLUSION
In summary, the rejections of claims 1-13 under § 103(a) are affirmed.
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