The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID W. NESBITT
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Appeal No. 2005-2433
Application No. 10/259,789
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HEARD: January 11, 2006
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Before GARRIS, FRANKFORT, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through
39, all of the claims pending in the application.
Appellant’s invention relates to a system and method for determining a preferred
route between an origin location and a destination location using a computer-
implemented routing system which utilizes a routing graph that represents a network of
roads. As indicated on page 1 of the specification,
“The routing graph includes two or more nodes and one or more links. Each directed
link is associated with a direction of travel from a starting node to an ending node. Each
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