DETAILED ACTION
This Office Action is in response to the communication filed on 09/04/2025.
Claims 1-16 and 29 are pending.
Claims 17-28 are withdrawn.
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 § 103
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 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 of this title, 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.
Claims 1-16 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Menzel (US Publication 2020/0011903 A1) and in view of Linowes et al (US Patent 9,251,472 B1).
The teachings of Menzel as disclosed in the previous office action are hereby incorporated by reference to the extent applicable to the amended claims.
Applicant has amended independent claims 1 and 14 to incorporate the limitations that (1) presenting at least one of the group comprising recovery metric(s) and recovery status(es) associated with the electrical system's recovery from the at least one identified event and determined by the analysis of the one or more impact characteristics on the at least one IED and/or on a display of at least one device in communication with the at least one IED; and
(2) providing at least one recommendation action to improve or optimize a sustainability impact associated with the recovery in response to the at least one identified event.
Regarding limitation (1), Menzel discloses this limitation (1) in paragraphs [0034,0181-0184,0206,0205-0228] and [0317-0320] as set forth in the previous office action.
Regarding limitation (2), Menzel does not disclose the sustainability impact associated with the recovery. However, Linowes discloses (2) providing at least one recommendation action to improve or optimize the sustainability impact associated with the recovery [Figs 4 and 5] [Col. 3 lines 37 – Col. 4 lines 16].
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Thus, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine the teachings of Menzel and Linowes together because they both directed to analyze and remedy the anomalous condition in the electrical system. Linowes’s disclosing of providing at least one recommendation action to improve or optimize the sustainability impact associated with the recovery would allow Menzel to increase the method’s efficiency by presenting the level of impact associated with the remedy/recovery status in response to the anomalous condition in the electrical system.
Regarding claims 2-13 and 29, the base claim is taught by Menzel in view of Linowes as disclosed above and the additional limitations in claims 2-13 and 29 are taught by Menzel as disclosed in the previous office action.
Regarding claims 14-16, these claims are rejected for the same reasons as set forth in claims 1 and 13.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments filed on 09/04/2025 have been fully considered but are moot in view of new ground(s) of rejection because the arguments do not apply to any of the references being used in the current rejection.
Conclusion
Examiner's note: Examiner has cited particular paragraphs and columns and line numbers in the references as applied to the claims above for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings of the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant in preparing responses, to fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the examiner (see MPEP § 2123).
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/PHIL K NGUYEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2176