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Appeal No. 2002-1695 Page 8
Application No. 08/971,386
bus since the most advantageous placement for tracking the
computer would be on the computer's external housing, which would
be more readily accessible to an active transceiver.
In view of appellants arguments, the examiner (answer, pages
6 and 7) shifts position and acknowledges that Anders does not
itself provide the motivation that appellants are seeking, but
instead relies upon Fuller for the motivation to provide Anders
with an RF transceiver attached to the memory bus of a computer.
From our review of Anders, we find that Anders is directed
to a Location, Identification, measurement of the Movement of,
Inventory and analytical, control guidance and sorting Systems
(LIMIS), for system monitoring and control. The system relates
to the use of passive transceivers (PTs) which can be coded,
erased, recorded or altered and attaches to various items as
"tags" (col. 1, lines 5-12). The system uses, inter alia, radio
frequency, and uses both PTs and active transceivers (ATS) (col.
4, lines 1 and 2). The PTs are adhered to or embedded within the
item to be identified (col. 4, lines 4-8). PTs can be adhered to
numerous items including computers (col. 4, lines 22-30). ATs
are designed to detect the PT within the useful limits of the
PT's transmitter range (col. 4, lines 44-46). Anders further
discloses (col. 8, lines 41-43) that some PTs will be connectable
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