Appeal Number: 2006-2840
Application Number: 10/080,571
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to a distance finder for golf courses. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A system for providing golfers with distance information relating to the
location of the golfer relative to predefined locations associated with a front of a
hole green and a middle of the hole green, comprising:
a personal digital assistant including a GPS function, a memory, a processor and
an input/output;
a cradle shaped and dimensioned for receiving the personal digital assistant and
transferring information thereto, the cradle including a memory storing
information relating to coordinates on a golf course and an input/output
transmitting information to the personal digital assistant, wherein the coordinates
stored within the memory of the cradle consist of a first coordinate relating to the
front of each of the hole greens and a second coordinate relating to the middle of
each of the hole greens;
wherein the personal digital assistant includes means for calculating and
displaying distance between a golfer's location and a designated coordinate on the
golf course based upon the first and second coordinates as loaded onto the
personal digital assistant via the cradle.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Meadows US 2002/0082775 A1 June 27, 2002 (June 15, 2001)
Ross 5,859,628 January 12, 1999
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