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 .
Claims 1-20 are pending.
Claims 1-20 are rejected below.
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.
Claims 1-20 are 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.
Claim 1 states that a model is generated and then determines if the model is available. It is unclear how the model would not be available since it was just generators in the previous step. It also isn’t know how this determination is made in the claim. It is noted that claims 2-4 seem to be discussing the determinization of availability, but does not seem to be actually claiming this. Claims 2 and 3 seem to be determining if the model is valid not available. These are not the same thing. A model could easily be valid or invalid yet still available. Since these claims are actually using the model it seems to be available. The does not seem to be any specific definition of available in the specification as if the Applicant is being their own lexicographer. As such, one of ordinary skill in the art would assume that if model is created than it is available. If not, the claim generates something that is unusable which the Examiner doubts is the Applicant’s intention. Claim 4 depends from claim 2 and also doesn’t remedy this issue.
Claims 5-17 depend from claim 1 and do not remedy the issue and are rejected for the same reason.
Claims 18 and 20 use similar terminology with regards to the model being “available” and are therefore rejected for the same reason. Examiner notes that claim 19 depends from claim 18 and does not remedy this issue and is therefore, rejected for the same reasoning.
Due to the claim language, specifically, of a generator model that is somehow not available examiner did a complete search but was unable to find art that matched the claims with the above issues.
Other Prior Arts
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
Hada (US PG Pub. 20240393760) teaches model comparison for validity.
Satou (US PG Pub. 20210103273) teaches verifying a model after its creation for use motor of an industrial machine.
Mochizuki (U.S. PG Pub. 2016/0363939) teaches a motor control unit with a friction model.
Yoshiura (U.S. PG Pub. 2016/0233808) teaches motor control using a speed command and a torque command.
Conclusion
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/NATHAN L LAUGHLIN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2119