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 .
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant's election with traverse of species V, 1-20 in the reply filed on 11/13/25 is acknowledged. The traversal is on the ground(s) that “the PTO does not correctly identify species.” This is not found persuasive because species were correctly identified in the Requirement for Restriction/Election dated 9/17/25.
The requirement is still deemed proper and is therefore made FINAL.
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) and (a)(2) as being anticipated by Chadani et al. (US 2005/0176299).
With respect to claim 1, Chadani et al. disclose a developing cartridge (e.g., cartridge 7) configured to be detachably mounted to an imaging device (e.g., item 100) comprising a detecting device (e.g., item(s) 105, 103 and/or 104), the developing cartridge comprising: a housing (e.g., fig. 2, item(s) 4 and/or 51); a rotating member (e.g., item(s) 1, 2, 40 and/or 43) rotatably provided in the housing; a driving force receiving member (e.g., item 70) configured to receive a driving force from the imaging device (100) to drive the rotating member to rotate (as discussed at least in paragraphs 64-68); and a detected device (e.g., item(s) 101, 102 and/or 94), configured to be in electrical contact with the detecting device (105, 103 and/or 104) when the developing cartridge is mounted in the imaging device (as shown at least by fig. 9); wherein when the rotating member is driven by the driving force receiving member to rotate (as discussed at least in paragraphs 64-68 and/or 90), the detected device (101, 102 and/or 94) is switched between an electrical disconnection state and an electrical connection state (as shown at least by figs. 9-18 and/or as discussed at least by paragraphs 92-116).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-16 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.
Claims 17-20 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for indicating allowable subject matter: The prior art of record does not disclose or suggest the claimed wherein when the rotating member is driven by the driving force receiving member to rotate, the detected device is switched between an electrical disconnection state and an electrical connection state, detected device comprises an on-off assembly and a control member, and the control member is configured to receive the driving force from the driving force receiving member to control the on-off assembly to be disconnected or connected, in combination with the remaining claim elements as set forth in the claims.
Conclusion
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/JOSEPH S WONG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2852
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