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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-15 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) or (a)(2) as being anticipated by Sahraoui et al WO 2019/2242273.
For claims 1, 12 and 15, Sahraoui discloses an apparatus, method and media instructions for use with a treatment device for providing feedback to a user on a treatment operation performed on a body part of a subject, wherein the treatment device is configured to apply light pulses to skin of the body part to perform the treatment operation, wherein a light pulse applied to the skin treats an area of the skin (p 1, lines 3-9; p 3, line 7; p 39, line 31 - p 32, line 4; p 48, line 26 - p 44, line 2; fig 4), the apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to:
- receive a first measurement signal from a first sensor ("détecteur de mouvement" 34; cameras 12, 14), the first measurement signal comprising information about positions and/or movements of the treatment device over time (p 33, line 26 - p 34, line 6);
- for a light pulse previously applied by the treatment device to the body part during the treatment operation, process the first measurement signal to estimate a previous treatment position as a position of the treatment device relative to the body part when the light pulse was generated; for the previously applied light pulse and based on the estimated previous treatment position, estimate a previous treatment area for the light pulse corresponding to the area of skin of the body part that the light pulse was applied to when the treatment device was at the previous treatment position (p 38, lines 2-27; p 39, line 19 - p 40, line 2; figs 4, 9);
- process the first measurement signal to estimate a current position of the treatment device relative to the body part (p 35, lines 9-11; p 36, lines 19-26).
The device is capable of generating feedback during the treatment operation.
For claims 2-4, :13-14 see Sahraoui et al. (p 33, line 26 - p 36, line 5);
For claims 5-7: see Sahraoui et al. (fig 4; p 11, line 31 - p 12, line 25; p 16, lines 10-24);
For claim 8: see Sahraoui et al. (figs 3A-C; p 31, lines 11-15; p 32, lines 1-11);
For claim 9: see Sahraoui et al (fig 3C; p 39, lines 10-24);
For claim 10: see Sahraoui et al (figs 3A-C; p 35, lines 9-11)
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