Appeal No. 2006-2850
Application No. 10/812,027
Kodama teaches accumulating pre-storing current vehicle position in
an internal memory, and Kodama teaches that the navigation device
including the inertial sensor and GPS receiver is removable (para
0039,0006). Kodama does not explicitly disclose utilizing first vehicle
data when the navigation module is installed in the first vehicle, and
utilizing second vehicle data when the navigation module is installed
in the second vehicle. However, since the navigation device taught by
Kodama can be installed in the first vehicle, then it can be installed in
the second vehicle (para 0039,0006), using pre-stored vehicle current
position of the first vehicle when the navigation device is mounted on
the first vehicle in order to provide correct navigation and correct
position representation on the map to first vehicle (not the position of
the second vehicle where the navigation device is not in) would have
been obviously within the knowledge of an ordinary person skilled in
the art. Moreover, Avitan teaches storing sets of data of different
vehicle in the same memory and allowing the user to select the set of
data that will be used in the vehicle in which the memory is in (Avitan
co1.3, lines 49-56), using the suggestions from Avitan, by storing
prestored current position data of different vehicles in a removable
memory, and allowing the user to select appropriate set of data for use
in the vehicle in which the navigation device is in would have been
well within the knowledge of an ordinary person skilled in the art at
the time the invention was made.
We disagree with the Examiner’s rationale. Claim 18, recites a vehicle
navigation system which includes a computer module including first vehicle
data and second vehicle data, wherein the first vehicle data is used when the
computer is the first vehicle and the second data when in the second vehicle.
We do not find that the combination of Kamiya, Kodama and Avitan teach
or make obvious such a system. While we concur with the Examiner that
Kodama teaches a navigation system which makes use of pre-
stored information of the current position and that the device may be moved
from car to car, we do not find that this would motivate the skilled artisan to
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