Appeal No. 2001-1773
Application No. 08/732,864 Page 6
information storage device comprises a resistive network to
provide a selected resistance between a pair of terminals (60a,
60b), the pair of terminals configured for engagement with
corresponding printer terminals.” In the examiner's opinion
(id.) the modification of Bullock in view of Watrobski would have
been obvious in order to provide a provision for recognizing
variations in the performance characteristics of individual chips
and be able to compensate for these variations.
Appellants assert (brief, page 8) that cartridge 60 of
Bullock does not include the printhead, which is carried by
separate structure, the ink jet pen 82. Appellants assert
(brief, pages 8 and 9) that cartridge 60 interconnects with a
receptacle 66, which in turn is fluidically connected to ink jet
pen 82 via conduit 84, and that Bullock therefore does not teach
or suggest a print cartridge including a pen body, a printhead
mounted to the pen body, and having a manufacturing tolerance
associated therewith. It is further argued (brief, page 9) that
“Bullock does not describe, with respect to Claim 1, ‘an
information storage device ... associated with the inkjet
printhead for storing information for identifying said
corresponding actual drop weight for said printhead, said
information readable by the inkjet printing apparatus’.”
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