Appeal No. 2003-0256
Application No. 09/334,375
or reasoning which shows that accuracy and reliability under all
environmental conditions would have been of significance to one
of ordinary skill in the art when selecting an ink cartridge
memory element for use in an ink jet printer. Also, the
characteristic of Cardullo’s transponder of receiving its
operating power from the transceiver and, therefore, being
passive and entirely self contained (col. 3, line 64 - col. 4,
line 3), clearly is a desirable characteristic of a transponder
mounted on an automotive vehicle in Cardullo’s exemplified use of
the transponder system. The examiner, however, has not
established that Cardullo’s disclosure of this characteristic
would have led one of ordinary skill in the art to use Cardullo’s
transponder system to replace Purcell’s integrated circuit memory
on an ink cartridge used in an ink jet printer. Moreover,
Purcell teaches that it is because the media roll is moving
during the printing process that he uses the transponder system
(col. 2, lines 10-16), and Cardullo also discloses the use of a
transponder on moving objects (i.e., railroad cars, col. 1,
lines 27-30, and automotive vehicles, col. 7, lines 5-7). In
contrast, Purcell teaches that the preferred mounting for
providing a conductive connection between the integrated circuit
memory element and the printer electronics is a drop-and-click
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