Appeal No. 1998-1733
Application No. 07/617,303
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated its original decision of December
19, 1994 and remanded this application for reconsideration in view of the new
guidelines adopted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for examination of
computer-related inventions. On remand and reconsideration, the examiner again
rejected the claimed subject matter, as to claims 1-15, 17-23 and 33, under 35 U.S.C.
§ 101 as being directed to nonstatutory subject matter and this appeal followed.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for determining at least one physical motion specification for
a physical object comprising executing the following steps in at least one
digital data processing device and at least one computer readable storage
medium that is included in or coupled with the at least one digital data
processing device:
a) embodying, in the at least one computer readable storage
medium, a configuration space data structure representing a physical
task space that surrounds the physical object in physical reality, the
configuration space data structure including signals representing the
physical object and the physical task space; and
b) propagating cost waves, in the configuration space data
structure, to fill the configuration space data structure with cost values
according to a space variant metric, the cost values representing physical
aspects of the physical task space with respect to the physical motion of
the physical object.
No references are relied upon.
Claims 1-15, 17-23 and 33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being
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