Appeal No. 1997-1577 Page 12
Application No. 07/941,466
flight and mission training was performed either without
navigational charts, or with real world charts which were used
even though the database corresponding to the real-world
environment had been modified for customized flight training
scenarios. In the opinion of Declarant J. Cary Quinn,
negative training resulted from using navigational charts
which did not correspond with the simulated non-real-world
environment. The Declaration of J. Cary Quinn additionally
states (page 4) that2
I wish to stress the point that, in the highly
competitive industry, for a period of about
fifteen (15) years although the need was evident,
the industry failed to develop a process for
producing hard copy database correlatable
navigational charts from a non-real-world visual
database as claimed.
The question in our mind, after reading the Declarations
is: why couldn’t one of ordinary skill in the art have
generated a hard copy of a navigational chart correlated to
the non-real-world visual database? We have reviewed the
Declarations and find no answer to this question.
2A similar statement is made by Declarant Joseph A.
Petrazio for a period spanning six (6) years.
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