Appeal No. 2004-2198
Application No. 10/047,925
“the art of territory planning has moved on a long way from lines on
maps.” The ability of the user to “manipulate territories on screen” and to
“manually allocate each individual brick to a territory” as expressed in the
second to the last paragraph at the bottom of page 4 of the reference
clearly would have indicated the touch screen of claim 6, the free hand
tracing of claim 4 and to utilize pen and digitizing tablets, well known as a
prior art input devices to computerized systems, as required in claim 5. It
is thus seen that the reference itself teaches fairly strongly to the artisan
the use of well-known devices such as those recited in claims 4-6 to enter
information into the software territory planning system of CACI.
In view of the foregoing, we have sustained the examiner’s rejections
of certain claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102 and 35 U.S.C. § 103. Therefore,
the decision of the examiner is affirmed.
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