Appeal 2007-1200
Application 09/900,251
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Sven Brueckner et al. (“Appellants”) seek our review under 35 U.S.C.
§ 134 of the Examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-40. We have jurisdiction under
35 U.S.C. § 6(b). We reverse.
THE INVENTION
Appellants claim a system for coordinating the actions of individual agents
situated in an environment with the environment and with one another, and more
particularly to a system operating with pheromone robotics. (Specification 1:5-7).
Claim 1, reproduced below, is representative of the subject matter on appeal.
1. A system for constraining the movement of a walker
in a digital space with respect to some distinguished
location in said space, comprising:
a pump software component associated with the
distinguished location emitting a digital pheromone to
generate a pheromone gradient, said pheromone having a
rate of evaporation and a rate of propagation and
a walker software component operating in a grid
system within the space and having a pheromone sensing
threshold, said walker moving within the space to satisfy
a preselected constraint with respect to said pump.
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-40 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as failing to
comply with the enablement requirement.
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