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               Appeal 2007-1944                                                                             
               Application 10/631,894                                                                       
               be placed on the side of the keyboard box of the telephone.  (Specification                  
               at 29.)                                                                                      
                      Prasad4                                                                               
               16. Prasad describes a "fuel supply configured to be removably coupled to                    
               a fuel cell to power a portable electronic device."  (Prasad at 1, ¶ 20.)                    
               17. According to Prasad, "it will be appreciated that a fuel supply                          
               according to the present invention may be used in connection with a wide                     
               range of devices, such as personal digital assistants, palm devices . . . etc."              
               (Prasad at 2, ¶ 20.)                                                                         
               18. Referring to Figure 1, which shows a laptop computer equipped with                       
               the fuel cell and fuel supply immediately in front of the keyboard area,                     
               Prasad also states that, "while fuel cell 12 is shown positioned next to fuel                
               supply 20 in electronic device 10, it will be appreciated that the fuel cell may             
               be positioned in any other desired relation to the fuel supply."  (Prasad at 2,              
               ¶ 20.)                                                                                       











                                                                                                           
               4 Ravi Prasad et al., U.S. 2003/0,082,427 A1, "Fuel Supply for a Fuel Cell,"                 
               published 1 May 2003.                                                                        

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