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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The IDSes filed 11/7/23 and 11/6/24 have both been considered and placed of record. The two (2) initialed copies are attached herewith.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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 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.
Claims 1, 2, 8 and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Ravinuthula et al. (US 2020/0381926A1).
Re claim 1, the reference discloses a battery system 100 (para 22) having, inter alia, a battery module that includes one or more battery cells 124A-C and is configured to be charged and discharged (para 23); a battery module manager 104A-C that monitors a state of the battery module and controls the battery module (para 22-28); and a battery management system 102 configured to receive a signal from the battery module manager 104A-C and transmit a reset signal that controls the battery module manager 104A-C to resume communication within the battery system 101 based on the received signal (para 19-33). See figure 1.
Re claim 2, the reference further discloses the battery module manager having, inter alia, a sensing portion for obtaining state data related to a state of the battery module from the battery module; a controller that controls a communication portion for communicating with the battery management system, wherein the controller controls the communication portion to transmit a signal to the battery management system in response to a signal received from the battery management system and changes an operating state of the battery module manager according to the signal received from the battery management system (para 20 and 21).
Re claim 8, the reference further discloses an operation of the battery module manager or the battery management system is controlled based on a signal applied from an upper controller external to the battery system (end of para 78).
Re claim 9, the method steps mirrored the apparatus structure of claim 1. Therefore, same rejection applied.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-7 and 10-14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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The Examiner’s SPE is Drew Dunn and he can be reached at 571.272.2312. The fax number for the organization where this application is assigned is 571.273.8300.
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/EDWARD TSO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2859 571.272.2087
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