Appeal No. 95-0005
Application 08/141,412
end to another whose connections are completed only if the
associated measuring index wheel is in a certain corresponding
position. It does not appear that such a system is similar to
the appellant’s disclosed invention, wherein a transponder
first determines the measurements, and then transmits the
determined measurements back to an interrogator through a
single inductive coupling. The examiner has failed to analyze
each claimed "means" on its own merit based on the appellant’s
disclosed embodiments, and also overly generalized the
appellant’s claimed invention. For instance, the examiner
concluded that there is no invention in
substituting wireless means for a wired path (answer at page
5). However, he overlooked that the information being
transmitted should be the same and further that the device
which does the transmission should be the same. Each claimed
means must be properly and individually accounted for. That,
the examiner has failed to do. As for the reliance on Tolson,
the appellant is correct that it discloses only wireless
communication of command signals in one direction. It would
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