Appeal No. 96-2990
Application 08/109,046
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 to 18, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A portable GPS receiver unit comprising:
a GPS receiver engine;
a housing enclosing said receiver engine; and
a GPS antenna electrically connected to said receiver
engine and being mountable on said housing for movement
separate from said receiver engine between a retracted
position within said housing and an extended position
protruding from said housing.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Olson 2,486,536 Nov. 1, 1949
Lidz 2,565,661 Aug. 28, 1951
Zibrik et al. (Zibrik) 5,138,328 Aug. 11, 1992
Maroun et al. (Maroun) 5,300,938 Apr. 5, 1994
(filing date Dec. 7, 1992)
Claims 1 to 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Zibrik.
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