Appeal 2007-0919
Application 10/179,555
sound, the user is audibly informed that the audible feedback function is
being disabled and the first mode of operation is selected. The ordinarily
skilled artisan would have thus appreciated that the absence of the
background sound resulting from the user’s actions as the user transitions
from one mode of operation to another is indicative of the user being audibly
informed of the transition. After considering the entire record before us, we
find that the Examiner did not err in rejecting claim 4 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over the combination of Vanderheiden and
Furuhata. We also find that the Examiner did not err in rejecting dependent
claim 5 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the
combination of Vanderheiden and Furuhata.3
3 Appellants have not presented any substantive arguments directed
separately to the patentability of the dependent claim. In the absence of a
separate argument with respect to the dependent claim, this claim stands or
falls with the representative independent claim. See In re Young, 927 F.2d
588, 590, 18 USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991). See also 37 C.F.R.
§ 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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