Appeal No. 2005-0994 Page 4
Application No. 09/432,485
disclosed in the reference, i.e., all limitations of the claim are found in the reference, or
'fully met' by it."
Miller is directed to transient CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations of a
bell sprayer. Miller utilizes a commercially available CFD package (PowerFlow™)
coupled with a visualization and particle trajectory algorithm (SpraySIM) to model paint
particle trajectories from a bell sprayer.
Claims 1 to 6 recite, in one manner or another, utilizing a computer aided design
(CAD) model representative of a desired portion of a vehicle in a system or method for
designing a vehicle. Miller does not disclose this limitation. Thus, Miller does not
disclose (1) spray gun placement code means as recited in claim 1; (2) trajectory
display code means as recited in claim 1; (3) the preparing step of claim 5; (4) the
placing step of claim 5; (5) the first storing step of claim 6; (6) the first displaying step of
claim 6; (7) the placing step of claim 6; and (8) the second displaying step of claim 6.
Accordingly, claims 1 to 6 are not anticipated by Miller.
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1 to
6 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is reversed.
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