Appeal No. 2003-0020
Application No. 09/631,060
not to make in the brief have not been considered and are deemed
to be waived [see 37 CFR 1.192 (a)].
The examiner applies Theimer for the teaching of an RFID
transponder system that can be used to determine whether a
transported object has reached its destination, the difference
between Theimer and the instant claimed invention being that, in
the former, the transponder makes the determination of whether
the object is being unloaded at its proper destination and
signals if it is not, whereas, in the instant claimed invention,
it is the interrogator which makes the proper determination and
issues a signal.
Thus, the examiner turns to Turner for a teaching of an
article sorting system whereby the RFID transponders are
manufactured more cheaply by having the reader process the
information regarding destination and identity. Accordingly, the
examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to have
“utilized the . . . reader to interrogate tags and make sorting
decisions since this, as suggested by Turner, would reduce the
cost of manufacturing intelligent RF Id tags of Theimer” (answer-
page 4).
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