Appeal No. 1996-3084
Application 08/168,167
that transponders of the type claimed have been utilized to
identify various types of objects in the prior art. On the
other hand, Juengel himself identifies in a general way that
the teachings of his invention may be applicable to other
types of utilities outside the machine tool environment as
expressed initially at column 2, lines 1 through 4 and at
column 4, lines 25 through 34.
As to the argument presented at page 9 of the brief that
the claimed and disclosed invention permits information
relative to the claimed physical volume to be determined
without loading the physical volume itself in a drive, this
advantage over prior art systems is also met by the teachings
in Juengel. Most notably, the discussion associated with
Figure 7 and the showing thereof indicates that a computer
numerical control machine tool system 100 has associated with
it a tool rotating drum or magazine 102 on which various tools
104 are rotatable for selection by the machine tool system
itself for use on a selective basis. There is no need to load
the tool into the machine tool to determine the nature of the
tool or its various data attributes stored in the memory
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