Appeal No. 2002-0662 Page 10
Application No. 09/099,963
to modify the system of Ayanoglu by scaling the map to simultaneously display the
position along with the route in view of the teachings of Fast.
Claims 2, 5, 8, 12, 16 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ayanoglu in view of Fast as modified above, and further in view of
Endo. In this rejection (answer, pp. 5-6), the examiner further determined that
(1) Ayanoglu does not disclose a means for determining a distance from a position to
the route and to display the distance; and (2) it would have been obvious to one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to modify the system of
Ayanoglu by determining the distance from the position so that the navigation system
can search for a route so that the travel distance to the destination may be
comparatively short in view of the teachings of Endo.
Grouping of claims
In the brief (pp. 3-4), the appellants have provided nine claim groupings as
follows: (1) Claims 1, 7, 14, 15 and 21; (2) Claim 3; (3) Claims 2, 8 and 16; (4) Claims 4,
9 and 17; (5) Claims 5, 12 and 20; (6) Claim 6; (7) Claims 10, 11, 18, 19 and 22;
(8) Claim 13; and (9) Claims 23 and 24.
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