The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte CARL T. MICKELSON, SCOTT B. POWELL, and CHRIS G. HORATTAS ____________ Appeal No. 1999-2555 Application No. 08/503,625 ____________ HEARD: January 25, 2001 ____________ Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 and 4 through 7, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Appellants' invention relates to a flight simulator employing a replication of the hardware for the operational flight program processor and a software simulation of the remainder of the avionics simulation computer. Claim 1 isPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007