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Appeal No. 96-3758
Application 08/252,832
cannot be sustained. We do not give any opinion on the propriety
of the examiner’s rejection as applied to the claims in their
form prior to the last amendment.
The rejection of claims 1-4,
7-12 and 16-19 over prior art
Claims 1, 7, 10 and 12 have been rejected as being
unpatentable over Pitchford alone. Claims 2-4, 8-9, 11 and 16-19
have been rejected as being unpatentable over Pitchford and
Randelman in combination.
All three independent claims 1, 7 and 16 require the receipt
of supplementary navigation data from a local station by a
navigation system having a navigation device installed in a
vehicle. The system already displays primary navigation data on
a display and selectively displays the received supplementary
navigation data.
Pitchford discloses a portable navigation device including a
display for displaying navigation data. It includes a
multipurpose keyboard which allows the user to communicate with
the navigation device to perform functions such as selecting a
number of special operations to provide numerous navigational
information desired by the user (column 1, line 65 to column 2,
line 2). Navigation data can be immediately displayed in digital
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