Appeal No. 2006-1026
Application No. 09/682,279
We will sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 6 and 8.
The collective teachings of Tseng and Kim would not lead to a
connection to both a peripheral device and a light assembly as
argued by appellant, but rather, as noted above, to a replacement
of the port taught by Tseng with a USB port as taught by Kim.
Since an illuminating device connected to the computer of Tseng
does not require data or transfer data, the artisan would have
recognized that the data ports of the USB connector would not be
used when only a light is connected. Since the data connectors
would not be used, there would be no transfer of data as recited
in claim 6. Kim teaches that USB connectors supply power using
the VBUS wire and the GND wire. Since the data wires of the USB
connector would not be used as discussed above, the USB wire of
the Tseng/Kim device would utilize only the VBUS wire and the GND
wire as recited in claim 8.
In summary, we have sustained the examiner’s rejection of
the claims on appeal. Therefore, the decision of the examiner
rejecting claims 5, 6 and 8 is affirmed.
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