Appeal No. 1996-3084
Application 08/168,167
disadvantages already identified in this portion of the
specification. Principally, the major disadvantage known to
the prior art is that a table-lookup system was necessary to
identify various parameters of prior art cartridges associated
with automated cartridge systems in a host computer rather
than in or on the claimed “physical volume” or cartridge per
se.
Juengel is significant in two respects with respect to
this understanding of the prior art. First, from an artisan's
perspective, both embodiments in Jeungel relate to the
particular item in question, in this case, a “machine tool
bit” carrying in an enclosed memory therein information
relating to the item or tool bit itself. Thus, in contrast to
the prior art deficiencies noted earlier in this opinion in
the early portions of the specification as filed requiring
such information to be located in tables external to the
“physical volume” itself, the series of problems associated
with this deficiency of the prior art is specifically
addressed in the teachings in this reference.
It is noted further that appellant admits at the bottom
of page 8, as well as at the bottom of page 11 of the brief,
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