Appeal No. 2003-1631
Application No. 09/451,332
assure that the requisite findings are made, based on evidence of
record, but must also explain the reasoning by which the findings
are deemed to support the agency’s conclusion.” In re Lee, 277
F.3d 1338, 1344, 61 USPQ2d 1430, 1434 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
As the Examiner and Appellants concede, Bush teaches
tracking of the shipping containers used for transporting goods
and determining alternate manufacturing schedule or shipment
partner in response to the location determinations (col. 1, lines
9-18). As shown in Figure 4, the part list and the itinerary for
shipment are loaded into a computer system and compared with the
actual location of the shipment which is obtained from the GPS
tracking module (col. 5, lines 45-51). The query step 48
determines whether or not the remotely shipped goods are on
schedule and looks for an alternate shipping method (col. 6,
lines 1-15) or an alternate manufacturing schedule (col. 6, lines
37-49) only if the shipment is not on schedule. Thus, Bush
attempts to keep the shipment on the schedule or delay the
manufacturing if the goods are not on schedule. However, as
argued by Appellants (brief, page 7), Bush neither compares a
first transmission from the supplier with the second and third
transmissions from the first and the second carriers, nor
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