Appeal No. 96-2990
Application 08/109,046
The examiner’s position that the modifier “GPS” has been
given no patentable weight is in error. The entire background
of appellant’s invention from page 1 through the top of page 3
of the specification as filed clearly establishes that GPS
receivers and antennas have an established, well known meaning
in the art. As such, GPS receivers and antennas must be given
patentable weight.
We also reverse both rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103
essentially for the same reasons. Lidz, Olson, and Maroun
fail to teach or suggest to the artisan anything relative to
GPS receivers or antennas. Therefore, the combination of
teachings of Zibrik and Lidz and of Olson and Maroun, even if
properly combinable within 35 U.S.C. § 103, would not have met
the limitations noted earlier in independent claim 1 on
appeal. Again, the art has well recognized structural and
functional meanings attached to the term “GPS” as applied to
receivers and antenna structures, contrary to the examiner’s
views.
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