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
Applicant’s claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is acknowledged.
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.
Claim(s) 1-7 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 20190275646 A1 to (LIU).
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Regarding claim 1, noting the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 8-15, (LIU) discloses omni-directional multi-grip socket (socket 41; Fig. 15) for hex fasteners (a hexagon object 35) comprising, a screw bit body having a fastener receiving open end portion (hexagonal tooth portion 32 within said oppositely disposed end (accommodation orifice 31) and a tool engagement end portion (opposing end of socket 41; Fig. 15), a plurality of annular spaced interior fastener engagement surfaces (multiple bevel rims 34) in said fastener receiving open end portion 31, contoured curvilinear recesses between said interior fastener engagement surfaces (rounded corners (not labeled), see annotated Fig. 8) interconnecting said fastener engagement surfaces 34, elongated channel cut (arcuately concave sections 33) within said fastener engagement surfaces 34, said channel cuts 33 defining pairs of parallel elongated fastener engagement edges (“two sides of each arcuately concave sections 33”; para. [0033], last sentence).
Regarding claim 2, in (LIU), each of the elongated channel cuts extending from the screw body fastener receiving open end portion to a termination point in spaced relation to the fastener receiving interior bottom (in socket 41; FIG. 15).
Regarding claim 3, in (LIU), said contoured curvilinear recesses joined between said fastener engagement surfaces 34 interlink and define fastener engagement surfaces in a hex fastener engagement orientation (“six arcuately concave sections 33 respectively arranged on six sides of the hexagonal tooth portion 32”; para. [0033], first sentence).
Regarding claim 4, in (LIU), said fastener engagement surfaces 34 are transversely sloped (“bevel”) from said respective fastener engagement edges (two sides of each arcuately concave sections 33) to said contoured curvilinear recesses defining spaced opposing pairs of angularly disposed fastener engagement surface extending from said respective channel cuts 33.
Regarding claim 5, in (LIU), one of said angularly disposed fastener engagement surfaces are of a bi-sectional angle to said channel cut of less than 90 degrees thereto (“any two spaced of the multiple bevel rims 34 respectively extend from two sides of each arcuately concave sections 33, and any adjacent of the multiple bevel rims 34 connect, wherein an inclined angle each of the multiple bevel rims 34 is 2 degrees.” – para. [0033], last sentence).
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Regarding claim 6, noting the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 8-15, (LIU) discloses a multiple bi-directional grip socket (socket 41; Fig. 15) for hex headed fasteners (a hexagon object 35) comprising, a socket body having a socket drive tool engagement fitting end (opposing end of socket 41; Fig. 15), a hex fastener socket open receiving fitting (hexagonal tooth portion 32) within said oppositely disposed end (accommodation orifice 31), a plurality of curvilinear interconnecting recesses (rounded corners (not labeled), see annotated Fig. 8 above) defining fastener engagement surfaces 34 there between, elongated engagement channel (arcuately concave sections 33) in said respective fastener engagement surfaces, said channel cuts 33 further define pairs of parallel elongated fastener engagement edges (not labeled) between said defined fastener engagement surfaces 34.
Regarding claim 7, in (LIU), said defined fastener engagement surfaces 34 have transverse angular slope to said curvilinear intersecting recesses of less than 90 degrees from said channel cuts (“any two spaced of the multiple bevel rims 34 respectively extend from two sides of each arcuately concave sections 33, and any adjacent of the multiple bevel rims 34 connect, wherein an inclined angle each of the multiple bevel rims 34 is 2 degrees.” – para. [0033], last sentence; FIG. 9).
Claim(s) 1-7 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 7,331,260 B2 to (Cheng).
The rotary wrenching tool with a driving head of ((Cheng), although having different terms, the features described therein, are mutatis mutandis the same, as those of claims 1-7.
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure as describing features related to the pending application.
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/David B. Thomas/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3723
/DBT/