Appeal No. 2004-2198
Application No. 10/047,925
viewed as well as comprising the traceable closed geographic area claimed.
The second to the last paragraph at page 4 of the reference indicates that
the mapping package allows the user to use “postal boundary sets” to
define territories within a mapped area, a manner of identifying the
claimed geographical units consistent with appellant’s definition at the top
of page 4 of the specification as filed.
In any event, the last two paragraphs of page 4 of the reference also
indicate that the user is capable of manipulating territories on screen, to
manually allocate each individual portion of a territory, to build territories
and further, as disclosed at page 5, that territories are stored as
computerized maps with each territory shaded a different color. Lastly, it
is indicated in the last paragraph of the CACI Limited Home Page document
at page 5 that map files of the whole structure or individual territories may
be sent for printing, which is obviously a reference to an entire trace of
the whole set of map files that further comprises a closed geographic area.
The ability of the user to otherwise edit or change the nature of the
territories defined at pages 4 and 5 of the reference allows the user
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