Appeal No. 2002-0767
Application No. 09/382,381
GPS receiver itself, which typically includes a computer
processor designed to support such flight control computations.
As indicated on page 2 of the specification, the GPS receiver
would typically be integrated with the A/Ps or flight control
computers (FCCs) of the aircraft, which systems, along with the
control surfaces and engines of the aircraft, constitute means
for controlling the aircraft in response to the deviation
signals.
With regard to the other make and/or use issues raised by
the examiner in the answer, we share appellants' views as
expressed on pages 7 through 10 of the brief, noting that the
application need not teach, and preferably omits, what is well
known in the art.
Thus, after a careful consideration of appellants'
disclosure and of the arguments on both sides, it is our opinion
that the level of skill in this art is sufficiently high that the
ordinarily skilled artisan would have been able to make and use
appellants' claimed invention as set forth in the claims before
us on appeal, based on appellants' disclosure, without the
exercise of undue experimentation.
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