Appeal No. 1998-2372 Page 11
Application No. 08/639,815
730 F.2d 1440, 1446, 221 USPQ 385, 390 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Here, Van Orsdel discloses "a geosynchronous earth satellite
11 ...." Col. 2, l. 23.
Because a satellite is a "vehicle intended to orbit the earth,
moon, or another celestial body," Webster's Ninth New
Collegiate Dictionary 1044 (1990)(copy attached), the
reference's geosynchronous earth satellite is a vehicle.
The appellant admits that Van Orsdel further discloses
that the geosynchronous earth satellite provides update
information. More specifically, he recognizes, "[b]oth the
time keeping and synchronization signals may be transmitted
... through a satellite 11 to a remote timepiece 12." (Appeal
Br. at 4.) For its part, the reference teaches that the
"geosynchronous earth satellite 11 ... transmits a coded time
signal back to earth for reception by any suitable receiver
which is within the transmission reception zone of the
satellite." Col. 2,
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