Appeal No. 2003-1301
Application No. 09/782,539
wherein the stored information is downloadable into a reader apparatus.” Here, we
agree with the examiner that Wagner teaches a memory for storing profile information
about the tool, wherein the information is downloadable to a reader. The examiner
maintains that the computer of Wagner “inherently functions as a reader apparatus,
since it accesses and acquires data stored in the memory.” (See answer at page 3.)
We also agree with the examiner that an apparatus that reads or downloads the stored
data is a reader apparatus.
Additionally, appellants admit that Wagner teaches monitoring a power tool and
storing the profile data, but that Wagner does not disclose downloading the records to a
reader apparatus for later analysis. (See brief at page 5.) Appellants draw a
distinction between their disclosed embodiment having a reader and computer and their
embodiment having just a computer. (See brief at pages 5-6.) Appellants argue that
there is no suggestion to modify the direct connection of the computer with a separate
reader apparatus. (See brief at page 6.) We agree with appellants that the examiner
has not addressed such an embodiment and Wagner does not specifically address
such a configuration, be we need not address such a limitation since the language of
the claim does not specifically detail the physical or functional structure of the reader
apparatus or that the reader is an intermediate storage device to a separate computer
or the manner that the stored information is downloaded from the memory.
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