Appeal No. 2004-2198
Application No. 10/047,925
examiner-labeled pages 4 and 5 at the top right corner of the CACI Limited
Home Page reference shows the anticipatory nature of these pages to the
subject matter of representative claim 1 on appeal. Therefore, we are not
persuaded by appellant’s two principal arguments that the CACI references
do not receive a trace defining a closed geographical area and identifying
at least one geographical unit within the closed geographical area as set
forth in this claim.
Pages 4 and 5 of CACI Limited Home Page make clear that the
claimed closed geographic area may comprise the maps mentioned in
several locations in these two pages. The emphasis upon appellant’s
arguments against this rejection as to this feature relate to the reception of
a trace not being taught within the reference. This argument is not well
taken since the existence of a map as a starting point from which areas
may be separately delineated, such as territories and regions, are clearly
indicated at least at page 4 of this reference. Because a map is
specifically taught, in the context of a trace of a mapped area, it
necessarily must be present to the extent appellant argues inherency
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