Appeal No. 2002-0553
Application No. 09/391,782
Function Display (MFD) shown in Fig. 16 of the reference, for
example, as being responsive to the content of claim 2. The
display of Fig. 16 includes a list of waypoints3 550
(configurable route window) and enroute high-altitude chart 545
(an adaptive graphical map segment).4
The argument in the brief fails to convince us that claim 2
is not anticipated by Briffe. In particular, we do not share
appellants’ analysis of the Briffe patent (brief, pages 4 and 5)
and conclusion that all windows have a fixed size of 1/6. In
support of our view, and consistent with the Briffe teaching at
column 11, lines 1 through 37, we note that the reference also
indicates that, for example, 1/4 screen formats can be
automatically compressed or reduced to 1/6 screen (column 16,
lines 2 through 5 and column 18, lines 1 through 7). All in all,
it is clear to us that Briffe would be understood by one skilled
in the art as teaching a size configurable route window.
3 A flight management system (FMS), as explained in Briffe
(column 1), includes a database of prestored navigation landmarks
known as waypoints. Thus, waypoints are FMS route data, as set
forth in claim 2.
4 The showing in Fig. 22 of Briffe, similar to Fig. 16, also
reveals a listing of waypoints 574 (route window) adjacent a
enroute high altitude chart 572.
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