The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KAREN I. TROVATO
and
LEENDERT DORST
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Appeal No. 1998-1734
Application No. 07/508,024
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, HECKER, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 30 and 41-53, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for
planning a path with regard to moving objects. The invention is
embodied in software for creating, in a computer memory, an
internal representation of the path and then sending signals to
the object relative to updated configurations of the path so that
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