Appeal No. 2002-1695 Page 6
Application No. 08/971,386
locations. The examiner specifically refers to the tags located
on wires, disclosed in figure 23 of Anders. The examiner asserts
(id.) that “[t]o connect the tags to a computer is well within
the realm of knowledge gleaned from the Anders reference.
Therefore, if would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art at the time of the invention to have utilized a passive
tag of Anders (connected to a buss[sic,]) for identifying the
workstation discussed in the Admitted Prior Art in order to
provide easy tracking and monitoring of the movement of
workstations for inventory purposes as suggested by Anders.” The
examiner goes on to assert (id.) that in an analogous art, Fuller
shows an RF transceiver which interfaces with a host computer,
and that software and identification are downloaded to the host
computer's memory to tailor the application. The examiner argues
(answer, pages 5 and 6) that “it would have been obvious to one
of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to have
the RF transceiver device above interface with the host computer
to download software to tailor the host computer as suggested by
Fuller, since this enables the transceiver to provide the host
with software required to operate on a unique bases, thus
simplifying the setup of the host computer.”
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