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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
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) 2-4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Wu (US 2019/0052697) in view of Yamaguchi et al. (EP 1355258).
Regarding to claims 2-3:
Wu discloses an analysis device assistance system including an analysis device, a repeater, and a destination electronic device, wherein,
the analysis device comprises:
an export instruction unit for issuing an export instruction of a user to “export measurement data to a destination electronic device” (FIG. 3A, step 302: Receive Request to Access File);
a data designation unit for designating specific measurement data to be exported among a plurality of types of the measurement data stored in a memory according to the instruction from the export instruction unit (FIG. 3A, step 304: Retrieve File Specified in Request);
a format conversion unit for converting the specific measurement data designated by the data designation unit to a two-dimensional code used for relaying to the destination electronic device (FIG. 3A, steps 306-314: Encoding the file to string for further converting into QR code image);
a display for displaying the two-dimensional code (FIG. 3A, step 316: Display QR Code Image); and
the repeater comprises a camera for importing the two-dimensional code displayed on the display of the analysis device (paragraph [0014] and FIGs. 2A, 3A: The scanner (255) reads the displayed QR code image in step 318).
Wu however is silent wherein the repeater comprises a transmission unit for transmitting the two-dimensional code imported by the camera to a destination electronic device via communication; and wherein the destination electronic device comprises a receiving unit for receiving the transmission from the repeater; and a decoding unit for decoding the two-dimensional code to the measurement data in an original format.
Yamaguchi et al. discloses a data communication system comprising a repeater (FIG. 3: The cellular phone) for importing data in a barcode image (FIG. 3: The camera imports the barcode image) and transmitting the barcode image data to a destination device (FIG. 3: Image processing device) via communication (FIG. 3: Communication line), wherein the destination device comprises a receiving unit (FIG. 10, element 26: Image data receiving unit) for receiving the barcode image data and a decoding unit for decoding the received barcode image data (FIG. 10, element 27: Data processing unit comprises the decoding process).
Therefore, it would have been obvious for one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify Wu’s system to transmit the data to the processing unit in the QR code/barcode image format because the format can carry a large amount of information with a small amount of corresponding data needed for transmitting as taught Yamaguchi (paragraph [0015]).
Regarding to claim 4: wherein the destination electronic device is an other analysis device (Yamaguchi: FIG. 10, element 27).
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 6/22/2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
In response to Applicant’s Remarks, the Examiner cites that, in Yamaguchi’s FIG. 2, the repeater (element 20: First device) simply imports image data and passes the image data to the destination device (element 21: Second device) without decoding the image data. The image data is in fact decoded in the destination device (Second device) by the data processing unit 27. This Yamaguchi’s feature therefore reads on the claimed repeater (as importing the two-dimensional code by a camera and transmitting the two-dimensional code without decoding) and the claimed destination device (as receiving the image data from the repeater and decoding the received image data).
In addition, Yamaguchi’s FIG. 4 shows that the decoded image data in the second device (21) is sent to the third device 30. Furthermore, the claim language does not restrict the sending back the decoded data from the destination electronic device to the repeater.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/LAM S NGUYEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2853
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