Appeal No. 96-1106
Application 07/998,721
Claims 19 and 20 additionally call for the avoidance
region to be set using a telephone number (claim 19) or a
postal zip code (claim 20). As indicated above, Link teaches
that detour or avoidance regions may be set using a number of
different parameters such as intersection, road segment,
entire roadway or geographical region (see the passage from
column 8 reproduced above). This disclosure of alternative
parameters to set a detour or avoidance region would have
suggested the similar use of other parameters commonly known
to be associated with specific areas such as a telephone
number or a postal zip code.
Thus, the examiner's rejection of claims 19, 20 and 24,
to the extent argued by the appellants, is well founded.
In summary and for the above reasons, the decision of the
examiner to reject claims 14, 17 through 20, 23 and 24 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 is affirmed with respect to claims 19, 20 and
24, and reversed with respect to claims 14, 17, 18 and 23.
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