Appeal No. 2003-0256
Application No. 09/334,375
1. A printer of the type which selectively deposits a color ink
onto a receiver to form an image on the receiver, the printer
being adapted to sense and update data uniquely associated with
an ink containing consumable loaded into the printer, comprising:
(a) a transceiver for transmitting a first electromagnetic
field and for sensing a second electromagnetic field, the first
electromagnetic field containing data for writing into a memory
associated with the ink containing consumable;
(b) a transponder coupled to said ink containing consumable,
said transponder adapted to receive the first electromagnetic
field and generate the second electromagnetic field in response
to the first electromagnetic field received thereby, the
transponder adapted to receive energy from the first
electromagnetic field that is generated by the transceiver and
the energy comprising the only energy for powering the
transponder and the transponder being adapted to read data from
the memory and write updated data to the memory in accordance
with an instruction code from the transceiver in the first
electromagnetic field; and
(c) the memory associated with the ink containing
consumable, the memory being coupled to said transponder, said
memory having data stored therein uniquely associated with the
ink containing consumable, whereby the second electromagnetic
field carries the data stored in said memory while the second
electromagnetic field is generated, the second electromagnetic
field being characteristic of the data stored in said memory.
THE REFERENCES
Mallory et al. (Mallory) 3,580,565 May 25, 1971
Cardullo et al. (Cardullo) 3,713,148 Jan. 23, 1973
Mochizuki et al. (Mochizuki) 5,266,975 Nov. 30, 1993
Purcell et al. (Purcell) 6,227,643 May 8, 2001
(filed Feb. 25, 1998)
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-3, 8-10, 13, 16, 19-21, 26-28, 31, 34, 37-48, 52 and 53
over Purcell in view of Cardullo, claims 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17,
18, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36 and 49-51 over Purcell in view of
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