Appeal No. 2005-2038
Application No. 09/957,416
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of determining a route between an origin and a
destination comprising:
beginning at the origin, determining multiple feasible segments from
the origin to a node at the end of each feasible segment;
varying an altitude as a function of three dimensional representations
of hazard areas;
iteratively determining further segments from the nodes to create
multiple segment paths between the origin and the destination; and
determining a segment path between the origin and destination
having the least cost.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Myers 6,085,147 July 14, 2000
Deker 6,161,063 Dec. 12, 2000
Claim 26 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Deker. All claims on appeal, claims 1 through 26 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.1 As evidence of obviousness, the
1 In the grounds of rejection portion at the top of page 3 of the answer,
the examiner indicates that claims 1 through 26 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. In relying upon the statement of the rejection set forth in
Paper No. 5, which is the Final Rejection mailed on January 24, 2003, page
4 of this rejection also lists claims 1 through 26 as being rejected under
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