Appeal No. 1999-0172
Application 08/334,733
in the substitute answer).
The appellants counter that the examiner’s conclusion of
obviousness is unsound because the applied references lack any
suggestion to increase the accuracy of the GPS location
determinations in the primary references or to utilize such
determinations to track freight containers in a freight yard.
The appellants’ position here is persuasive with respect
to the proposed combination of Alesio and either Mansell or
Bickley, but not with respect to the proposed combinations of
Rudnicki, Burns or Welles and either Mansell or Bickley.
More particularly, the vehicle theft detection system and
method disclosed by Alesio bear little resemblance to the
freight related system and method recited in independent
claims 1, 10 and 27. Even if the Alesio system and method
were modified in view
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