Appeal No. 2002-0767
Application No. 09/382,381
set forth in the specification and drawings of the application,
and are therefore purportedly not enabled, overlooks the
examiner's responsibility to explain why one of ordinary skill in
the art would have been unable to understand and implement the
invention claimed in the present application when the disclosure
of the application is considered as a whole. In that regard, we
note that we see no discussion by the examiner as to exactly why
the rather straight-forward invention disclosed and claimed in
the present application would be beyond the capability of one of
ordinary skill in the art (i.e., would require undue
experimentation to implement) given a full consideration of
appellants' disclosure.
Appellants' contribution to the art recognizes the need for
a correction factor to be used in the determination of glideslope
and localizer deviation signals used by instrument landing
systems (ILSs) and/or autopilots (A/Ps), particularly during the
critical final stages of approach and landing, wherein the
correction factor represents the separation distance of the GPS
antennas, which are often located midship and on top of the
aircraft, from ILS antenna locations, which are usually in the
nose or tail section of the aircraft. On page 9 of the
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