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 .
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, 14, 15 and 19 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by CN2098834675U (Li Ziping hereafter).
Li Ziping discloses (claims 1, 15, 19) a method for controlling an automatic loading or unloading machine, executed by control device in a loading or unloading system, wherein the loading or unloading system comprises the control device 20, an automatic loading or unloading machine 1, and a transport robot , and the method comprises: controlling a sub-device 8 of the automatic loading or unloading machine corresponding to a fault point to go offline when the fault point is detected during execution of a current task by the automatic loading or unloading machine and the transport robot (see paragraph [0026] of translation); and controlling the offline sub-device 8 to go online again and initializing the transport robot 1, 2 and the sub-device 8 that goes online again after the fault point is eliminated, to cause the transport robot 1, 2 and the sub-device 8 that goes online again to re-execute the current task;
(claim 2) wherein the controlling a sub-device 8 of the automatic loading or unloading machine corresponding to a fault point to go offline when the fault point is detected comprises: controlling the sub-device 8 of the automatic loading or unloading machine corresponding to the fault point to go offline when the fault point is detected by sensor 19 which sends information to microcontroller 20, regarding a position of the transport robot 1,2 ; and controlling the transport robot 1,2 to stop moving when the position of the transport robot is in a designated operating area as broadly claimed; (claim 14) controlling, according to a control operation performed by a user on a control display interface, a sub-device 8 of the automatic loading or unloading machine corresponding to the control operation to go online or go offline when the control operation is received as broadly claimed in that in the case of a lifting platform failure the circuit breaker can be manually disconnected.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-13, 16-18 and 20 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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/GENE O CRAWFORD/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3651