DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Claims 1-11 are pending.
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.
The factual inquiries for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claim(s) 1-4, 7 and 10-11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kazuo et al. (herein after Kazuo) (English Translation of JP 2016093098A) in view of Seo et al. (hereinafter Seo) (US 20150134138 A1) , and further in view of Lloyd et al. (hereinafter Lloyd) (US 11675042 B1).
Kazuo and Seo were cited as prior art in the previous office action mailed on 06/03/2025. Their teachings are incorporated by reference to the extend that is applicable to amended claims.
By way of amendment, Applicant inserted the limitations “wherein the first control unit is further configured to delete all of the first power information stored in the first storage unit before transmitting the second power information” into claim 1, “wherein the control unit is further configured to delete all of the first power information stored in the first storage unit before transmitting the second power information” into claim 10, and “deleting all of the first power information stored in the first storage unit before transmitting the second power information” into claim 11.
As to claims, 1, 10 and 11, Kazuo in view of Seo does not teach deleting the first power information stored in the storage unit before transmitting the second information.
Lloyd teaches deleting all of the first power information stored in the first storage unit after a predetermined time period [col. 24. line 29-33: “In some implementations, the data associated with the power generation and the power consumption may be stored for a period of time, for example, rolling based on an acquisition date/time or process data/time, and then deleted.”].
Thus, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the invention to incorporate the teaching of deleting stored power information after a period of time as suggested in Lloyd into Kazuo in view of Seo to implement data management. One having ordinary skill in the art would have been motivated to make such modification to free up more available memory space for other processes.
As to claims 2-4 and 7, the rejections are respectfully maintained for the reasons as set forth in the previous office action mailed on 06/03/2025.
Claim(s) 5, 6, and 8 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kazuo et al. (herein after Kazuo) (English Translation of JP 2016093098A) in view of Seo et al. (hereinafter Seo) (US 20150134138 A1) and Lloyd et al. (hereinafter Lloyd) (US 11675042 B1), and further in view of Doddaiah (US 20220129184 A1)1.
As to claims 5, 6 and 8, the rejections are respectfully maintained for the reasons as set forth in the previous office action mailed on 09/29/2024.
Claim(s) 9 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kazuo et al. (herein after Kazuo) (English Translation of JP 2016093098A) in view of Seo et al. (hereinafter Seo) (US 20150134138 A1) Lloyd et al. (hereinafter Lloyd) (US 11675042 B1), and further in view of Suzuki et al. (hereinafter Suzuki) (US 20180288650 A1)2.
As to claim 9, the rejection is respectfully maintained for the reasons as set forth in the previous office action mailed on 09/29/2024.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1, 10 and 11 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
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/XUXING CHEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2176
1 Doddaiah was cited as a prior art in the previous office action mailed on 09/29/2024.
2 Suzuki was cited as a prior art in the previous office action mailed on 09/29/2024.
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