Appeal No. 2000-2085
Application No. 08/803,937
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over,
Ames.
Claims 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 14 through 19 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Ames.
Attention is directed to the appellants’ main and
reply briefs (Paper Nos. 20 and 22) and to the examiner’s
final rejection and answer (Paper Nos. 15 and 21) for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner
with regard to the merits of these rejections.
DISCUSSION
Ames discloses a dual satellite navigation system
and method for determining the position of a mobile
object such as an aircraft 12'. The system includes a
fixed ground station 10, a primary satellite S1 and a
secondary satellite S2. As described by Ames, and with
particular reference to Figure 2,
ground station [10] continuously transmits two
radio signals [20a, 20b’; 22a, 22b’], each with
an identical periodic carrier modulation, via
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