DETAILED ACTION
1. Claims 21-25, 27, 29-37, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, 49, and 51 were pending in this reissue application 16/919,672 for reissue of US Patent 10,195,950 (hereinafter “the '950 patent”) issued from application no. 14/814,918 (“the ‘918 application”). Claims 21-25, 27, 29-37, 39-40, 43, 45, 47, and 49 were withdrawn from consideration. This Office action is responsive to amendments and arguments filed on November 17, 2025 (“the Response”) in response to the Office action issued on August 15, 2025. In the Response, Applicant amended claim 51 and cancelled all other pending claims. Claim 51 is currently pending.
Prior or Concurrent Proceedings
2. Applicant is reminded of the continuing obligation under 37 CFR 1.178(b), to timely apprise the Office of any prior or concurrent proceed-ing in which the ‘950 patent is or was involved. These proceedings would include interferences, reissues, reexaminations, and litigation.
Information Material to Patentability
3. Applicant is further reminded of the continuing obligation under 37 CFR 1.56, to timely apprise the Office of any information which is mate-rial to patentability of the claims under consideration in this reissue appli-cation.
These obligations rest with each individual associated with the filing and prosecution of this application for reissue. See also MPEP §§ 1404, 1442.01 and 1442.04.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
4. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Response to Amendments
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 251 - Declaration
5. Supplemental Declaration submitted address the problem noted in the last Office Action. Accordingly, corresponding rejection is withdrawn.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
6. Claim 51 has been amended. Applicant’s arguments regarding amended limitations have been considered but they are not persuasive. Newly added limitations have been fully addressed in the rejection below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
7. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
8. Claim 51 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
The claim recites the limitation “transmitting, to the power receiving module, second information for performance of a starting of a transmitting of energy corresponding to the performance of the moving of the vehicle.” It is not clear what this limitation means. It is not clear what it means for energy to correspond to the performance of moving of the vehicle. For the purpose of this examination the limitation will be interpreted as “transmitting, to the power receiving module, second information for starting of a transmission of energy.”
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
9. In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
10. Claim 51 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over US 2013/0335015 (“Ichikawa”) in view of US 2015/0022161 (“Chauhdary”).
Ishikawa discloses a method for controlling a wireless power transmission device, the method comprising:
receiving, from a user interface module, a charging request for a vehicle (FIG. 16A, S410);
transmitting, from a power receiving module, first information for a performance of a moving of the vehicle (Fig. 16B steps S452 – S454, paragraph [00169], the vehicle transmits parking position information received from the power transmission device to the parking control system of the vehicle);
performing, based on the transmitted first information, the moving of the vehicle so as to match a position of a transmitting coil installed outside the vehicle with a position of a receiving coil installed on the vehicle (FIG. 16A and B, steps S560-585 and S452-S454; see also paragraphs [0165]-[169]);
transmitting, to the power receiving module, second information for performance of a starting of a transmission of energy corresponding to the performance of the moving vehicle (see S590 and paragraph [0170]);
charging the vehicle, in response to receiving a charging start request for the vehicle included in the transmitted second information (S460);
[transmitting, from a power receiving module to a display unit, information about a charging progression state of the wireless power transmission device and state information of the power receiving module and a power transmitting module; and
displaying, by the display unit, the charging progression state of the wireless power transmission device], wherein the power transmission module is connected to the transmitting coil and the power receiving module is connected to the receiving coil (see FIG. 7 and 8).
However, Ichikawa does not specifically teach transmitting charging progression state to a display unit and displaying the information by the display unit (limitations in square brackets). On the other hand, Chaudary teaches transmitting, from a power receiving module to a display unit, information about a charging progression state of the wireless power transmission device and state information of the power receiving module and a power transmitting module (see paragraph [0033], FIG. 6, 1S116; see also FIG. 6, S163 and 169, FIG. 7, FIG. 8); and
displaying, by the display unit, the charging progression state of the wireless power transmission device (see paragraph [0033], FIG. 6, 1S116; see also FIG. 6, S163 and 169, FIG. 7, FIG. 8).
It would have been obvious to one or ordinary skill in the art to use Chaudary’s charging information display teachings in the system of Ishikawa to be able to monitor the charging status. Applying a known technique (displaying charging information) to a known device (vehicle charging system of Ishikawa) ready for improvement to yield predictable results is obvious under KSR v. Teleflex.
Conclusion
11. THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/Woo H. Choi/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992
Conferees:
/Cameron Saadat/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992
/ALEXANDER J KOSOWSKI/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3992
