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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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.
Claim(s) 1,6, 10, 12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by D1 JP-2013217807-A.
Regarding claims 1, 6, 10, 12 D1 teaches
A smokestack inclination detection system comprising
a light source(1 fig. 8) and a smokestack(smokestack interpreted as any tubular shape structure as identification of the smokestack is not present and device itsel does not know what is it maybe other than the shape) inclination detection device(30 fig. 10), wherein the light source includes an light illuminator configures to illuminate laser light on a smokestack, (fig. 8)
an light receiver(1) configured to receive reflected laser light being light resulting from the laser light reflected by the smokestack(fig. 8), and
an information generator configured to generate smokestack shape (trapezoidal shape measurement)information being information relating to a shape of the smokestack, based on reflected light of the laser light being received by the light receiver,(page 7)
and the smokestack inclination detection device includes an inclination detector configured to detect inclination of the smokestack, based on the smokestack shape information generated by the information generator.(page 7)
Claim 2 (page 7)
Claim 3, 7 (page 7) (trapezoidal shape measurement)
Claim 4, 5, 6, 9 (fig. 8)
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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.
Claim(s) 7, 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over D1.
Although D1 does not explicitly teach subject matter of claims 7 and 8 using display to indicate the inclination is obvious modification in order to notify the user regarding the degree of the inclination.
Conclusion
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