Appeal No. 96-3758
Application 08/252,832
As software functions are enhanced, improved
or added, they can be provided to the user
through update disks which may be loaded on a
standard personal computer and down loaded to
the navigational instrument 1 by way of the
input/output port 22 of the optically coupled
serial interface connected to the CPU 88
without the necessity of returning the entire
navigational instrument 1 to a factory or
service center for updating.
Without any explanation, the examiner simply assumes that
the information received by Pitchford’s navigation device through
its optical I/O interface from another electronic device is
supplementary navigation data (answer at 4, lines 13-14). The
above-quoted description of the use of the I/O port does not
reasonably suggest that the information received is supplementary
navigation data. The examiner has no basis to assume that the
information received constitutes supplementary navigation data.
We do not interpret the term navigation data so broadly as to
cover anything and everything which may be inputted to a
navigation device from whatever source and for whatever purpose.
Moreover, all of the claims require selective display of the
received supplementary navigation data. Pitchford does not
disclose that the programming information or any other
information received from the I/O port would be displayed. The
examiner concluded that it would have been obvious to display the
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