Appeal No. 1997-2455
Application 08/318,235
evidence of a well-known power supply for a tag which stores
power from the transducer. On page 7 of the answer, the
Examiner asserts that Schuermann teaches that the power is
supplied to the tag when the capacitor reaches a value
necessary for satisfactory operation. Further, the Examiner
asserts that the presence or absence of the RF pulse is not an
issue.
We first must determine the scope of the claims. The
scope of claim 30 includes that the tag has a two stage power
developer where:
a first portion of the power supplied by the
reader’s carrier being supplied by the power
developer directly to the tag components, a second
portion of the power supplied by the reader’s
carrier being stored by the power developer and
supplied to the tag components when the first
portion is insufficient to power the tag.
Similarly, claim 65 contains the limitation of “a first
portion of the power being used directly to perform the steps,
a second portion of the power being stored and used to perform
the steps when the first source of power is insufficient.”
Thus, both claims contain limitations that the power developer
provides power directly from the transducer to the tag and a
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