Appeal No. 96-0463
Application 08/069,161
selecting geographic centers from the places of interest
database which are geographically located within a predetermined
distance of the generated travel route; and
generating a list of places of interest associated with the
selected geographic centers.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Person 5,067,081 Nov. 19, 1991
Claims 5, 7, 13 and 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Person.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the various briefs and answers for
the details thereof.
OPINION
We sustain the rejection essentially for the reasons set
forth by the examiner in the answer, further in view of the
following.
The context in which Person operates as it applies to
representative independent claim 5 on appeal is set forth at
column 5, lines 12 through 28. There it is indicated that the
external memory device 26 in Figure 2 may store geographical
areas such as county, state, region, country or continent as a
basis of the generalized geographic region claimed. The claimed
geographical location corresponds to the latitude and longi-
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