Appeal No. 1997-0198
Application No. 08/227,609
the vehicle on the computer screen while the vehicle is moving
along the travel route (see: column 7[,] lines 49 et seq[.])”
(answer, pages 10 and 11).
The examiner’s contentions to the contrary notwithstanding,
the link messages for cells and the Bosch road maps on CD are all
provided to the vehicle in real time (abstract; column 3, lines
8 through 20; column 7, lines 35 through 65; and column 13, line
65 through column 14, line 2), and are not data in the form of a
“travel route model” that was formed by the vehicle’s processor1
during an earlier trip by the vehicle through the cell(s). Thus,
we agree with appellant’s arguments.
The 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) rejection of claims 1, 2 and
4 through 14 is reversed because “[a]nticipation under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 requires the disclosure in a single piece of prior art of
each and every limitation of a claimed invention.”
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Articulate Sys., Inc., 234 F.3d 14,
20, 57 USPQ2d 1057, 1061 (Fed. Cir. 2000).
1 In Zechnall (U.S. Patent No. 5,146,219), current vehicle
location data is compared with stored “travel route” data to
provide driving instructions to the driver of a vehicle (column
3, lines 18 through 23). In this Bosch patent, the stored data
is “empirically determined beforehand by means of test vehicles”
(column 3, lines 8 through 16). For your information and record,
a copy of this patent is attached.
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