Appeal 2006-2462
Application 09/790,856
Independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. An apparatus for retrieving data cartridge information associated
with a data cartridge contained in a cartridge receiving device, comprising:
an identification device comprising a radio frequency identification
(RFID) transponder mounted to the data cartridge, said RFID transponder
containing the data cartridge information; and
a reader mounted to a least one storage slot of the cartridge receiving
device, said reader operable to read said RFID transponder within the
cartridge receiving device when the data cartridge is positioned in the at
least one storage slot of the cartridge receiving device.
The following references are relied on by the Examiner:
Tanaka US 6,045,041 Apr. 4, 2000
Brady US 6,201,474 B1 Mar. 13, 2001
(Filed November 18, 1998)
All claims noted earlier on appeal stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103. As evidence of obviousness, the Examiner relies upon Tanaka in
view Brady.
Rather than repeat the positions of the Appellant and the Examiner,
reference is made to the Brief and Reply Brief for Appellant’s positions, and
to the Answer for the Examiner’s positions.
OPINION
For the reasons stated by the Examiner in the Answer, as amplified
here, we sustain the rejection of all claims on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
For purposes of our analysis, Appellant has considered independent
claims 1 and 9 together; the same may be said of independent claims 18 and
52. Separate arguments are presented as to dependent claims 33 and 57 on
appeal.
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