DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Species 1, Figures 1-3, 4a, 5-6, and claims 1-4 in the reply filed on 02/20/2026 is acknowledged.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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) 1-2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Duan et al. (US 2021/0369093).
In re claim 1, Duan, in figures 1-29, discloses a magnetic actuation device comprising: a base (13); and at least two magnetic field generation modules each disposed on the base and including a permanent magnet (5,8), the permanent magnet being rotated about a horizontal axis parallel to the base or a vertical axis perpendicular to the base (see paragraph 122).
In re claim 2, Duan, in figures 1-29, discloses that the magnetic field generation module includes a rotation unit rotating the permanent magnet in two axial directions of the horizontal axis or the vertical axis, a fixing unit (2,11) fixing the rotation unit, and an actuation unit (16,20) transmitting a rotational force to the rotation unit.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-4 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. A list of pertinent prior art is attached in form PTO-892.
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