Ex parte SMITH et al. - Page 6




          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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