Ex Parte Garin

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Feb 8, 2016

12355610 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 8, 2016)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE
12/355,610 01/16/2009
23696 7590 02/10/2016
QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
5775 MOREHOUSE DR.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92121
FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
Lionel J. Garin
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
www .uspto.gov
ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.
081918 7079
EXAMINER
ISSING, GREGORY C
ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER
3646
NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE
02/10/2016 ELECTRONIC
Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the
following e-mail address( es):
us-docketing@qualcomm.com
PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
Ex parte LIONEL J. GARIN
Appeal2014-001203
Application 12/355,610
Technology Center 3600
Before JENNIFER D. BAHR, GEORGE R. HOSKINS, and
ARTHUR M. PESLAK, Administrative Patent Judges.
PESLAK, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellant1 appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from the Examiner's
decision rejecting claims 12, 15-22, 34, and 37--43. The Examiner withdrew
the rejection of claims 1, 4--11, 23, and 26-33 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
Ans. 2. Claims 35 and 36 were cancelled. Appeal Br. 15. We have
jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
We AFFIRM.
1 Appellant submits that Qualcomm, Inc. is the real party in interest on this
appeal. Appeal Br. 2.
Appeal2014-001203
Application 12/355,610
THE CLAIMED SUBJECT MATTER
Claims 12 and 34, reproduced below, are illustrative of the claimed
subject matter:
12. An apparatus comprising:
means for determining a current chip number associated with a
spread-spectrum sequence in at least one received Satellite Positioning
System (SPS) signal transmitted by at least one space vehicle (SV);
means for determining a fraction of a chip associated with at
least one carrier signal phase measurement sample;
means for determining at least one SV transmit time based, at
least in part on a local receiver time, said current chip number, and
said fraction of said chip;
means for determining a carrier phase integer ambiguity
associated with at least said at least one SV transmit time; and
means for determining $' ;s~