Appeal No. 1999-2555
Application No. 08/503,625
Craig Covault, "Shuttle Creates New Astronaut Training,"
Aviation Week & Space Technology, (August 14, 1978), pp. 50-1
and 57-9. (Covault)
James Schefter, "Shuttle simulator tours outer space without
leaving the ground," Popular Science, (August 1979), pp. 60-3
and 120. (Schefter)
Claims 1 and 4 through 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Covault and Schefter in view
of Berner.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 25,
mailed May 22, 1998) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No.
24, filed January 23, 1998) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
and 4 through 7.
Claim 1 requires, in pertinent part, a control central
processing unit and programmable input/output emulator which
"do not duplicate hardware of the aircraft, but are software
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