Appeal 2007-1944
Application 10/631,894
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over various references.2 We have jurisdiction under
35 U.S.C. § 6(b). We AFFIRM.
The claimed subject matter relates to various combinations of a fuel
cell, a "fuel cell system," and in some embodiments, a portable device
powered by the fuel cell and system. According to Ushiro, a critical portion
of the fuel cell system is a secondary cell that is disposed adjacent to the fuel
cell. (Br. at 3.)
Claim 25 is illustrative of the issues necessary to resolve this appeal
and reads as follows:
A camera including
a solution supply port for a fuel electrode of a fuel cell
and
a solution discharge port for an air electrode of the fuel
cell,
the camera comprising,
a fuel cell; and
a fuel cell system, including
a fuel storing section for storing fuel for generating
power by the fuel cell,
formed with a flexible sheet member, which
at least a part thereof is deformable,
a fuel supply port, which is
provided at the fuel storing section, and is
detachably connected to the solution supply
port of the fuel electrode of the fuel cell, and
2 The Examiner has withdrawn a rejection of claims 25, 26, 28, and 51 under
35 U.S.C. § 112(1), for lack of enablement. (Examiner's Answer mailed 24
August 2006 ("Answer"), at 2.)
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