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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims. Therefore, the “display unit is located inside at least two side surfaces of the main body” of claim 1, “first display located to face one side surface of the main body and located inside the one side surface of the main body; and a second display located to face the other side surface of the main body and located inside the other side surface of the main body” of claim 2, and ”wherein the main body further includes an inclined portion having an upwardly extending shape inclined from one side surface and the other side surface in a direction facing each other, and the display unit includes a first display and a second display located at an upper part of the inclined portion to face away from each other” of claim 3, must be shown or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s). No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 2 rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Specifically, it is unclear how a first display can both “face one side surface of the main body” and also be “located inside the one side surface of the main body.” Same with the second display. The displays are extending away from the body and not facing the body. Likewise, they don’t appear to be located inside either sides surface.
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) 1, 6-8 and 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Itoh (US 9980648) in view of Angott (US 2015/0257651).
In re claims 1 and 14, Itoh teaches a cart for optical coherence tomography (intended use), comprising: a rotary catheter unit (101, 201, 202); a main body (111) including a receiving member configured to receive the rotary catheter unit (fig. 1); a mobile unit coupled to a lower part of the main body and configured to move the main body on the ground (see wheels on cart); and a display unit (113) connected to an upper part of the main body and configured to output information generated by the rotary catheter unit.
Itoh differs in that it does not explicitly teach the display unit is located inside at least two side surfaces of the main body. Attention, however, is directed to Angott which teaches a similar device with a display (56) located inside at least two surfaces of a main body (fig. 3). It would be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of invention to modify the apparatus of Itoh with the main body structure of Angott to provide for an easily maneuverable cart.
Likewisee, Angott further teaches from a top view of the cart, the center of gravity of the display unit is located in an inner area of the main body (clear from fig. 1 as it is surrounded by the cart).
In re claim 6, Angott further teaches the mobile unit includes: a leg portion (38) extending to protrude to the outside of the main body; and a roller portion (40) coupled to an end portion of the leg portion and roll on the ground.
In re claim 7, Angott further teaches the mobile unit protrude to the outside from four side surfaces of the main body to land on the ground (fig. 4).
In re claim 8, Angott further teaches a manipulation unit including a grip portion (64) provided to protrude to the outside from at least one side surface of the main body.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-5 and 9-13 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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/EREZ GURARI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3614