Appeal No. 2001-2029
Application No. 09/095,170
information and signal information at each of said plurality of
sections.” The “processing” of the collected location
information and signal information into a signal profile database
is said to be taught at column 3, line 47-column 14, line 19 of
the reference and the final “determining” step is said to be
taught at column 5, line 15-column 14, line 19.
Initially, we point out that referring to columns 3-14 or to
columns 5-14 amounts to a very broad reference, including the
bulk of the patent reference disclosure, within a disclosure
purporting to teach a “processing” and “determining” step,
respectively. This leads us to believe that there is not one
particular section of the reference to which the examiner can
point in order to evidence a specific teaching of processing
collected location and signal information or of determining a
section in which the mobile telephone is located using
information in a signal information profile database generated by
the processing step.
In fact, appellant argues that Bonta is not even directed to
locating a mobile telephone at all but, rather, to generating a
neighbor list via simulations. We agree. While one may argue
convincingly that the location of the mobile telephone must be
known in order to establish where a certain simulation occurs and
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