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
A Priority Document Exchange Failure Status Report was sent to the Applicant on 11/12/24.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 4/30/24, 11/13/24, 4/14/26 are considered by the examiner.
Drawings
The drawings submitted on 4/30/24 have been considered.
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) 1-5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Chang et al. (US Publication 20160272080).
Regarding claims 1-5, the Chang et al. reference discloses a battery system, a power storage device and a control device.
The limitations, “that executes polarization cancellation control for canceling polarization of the power storage device, and calculation processing for calculating SOC of the power storage device after the polarization cancellation control, wherein when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is discharged, the polarization cancellation control is charging control for charging the power storage device, and when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is charged, the polarization cancellation control is discharging control for discharging the power storage device,” “when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is discharged, the calculation processing is processing for calculating the SOC using an SOC-OCV characteristic of the power storage device under charging of the power storage device, and when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is charged, the calculation processing is processing for calculating the SOC using an SOC-OCV characteristic of the power storage device under discharging of the power storage device,” “assuming that a period of time during which the polarization cancellation control is executed is defined as a cancellation period, when the power storage device is charged just before the cancellation period, a period of time during which the power storage device is charged is defined as a just-before charging period, and when the power storage device is discharged just before the cancellation period, a period of time during which the power storage device is discharged is defined as a just-before discharging period, when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is discharged, the cancellation period is shorter than the just-before discharging period, and when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is charged, the cancellation period is shorter than the just-before charging period,” “when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is discharged, a length of the cancellation period is one eleventh or more and one ninth or less of a length of the just-before discharging period, and when the polarization cancellation control is executed after the power storage device is charged, the length of the cancellation period is one eleventh or more and one ninth or less of a length of the just-before charging period,” “wherein when one eleventh of the length of the just-before discharging period is less than 0.1 second and one ninth of the length of the just-before discharging period is 0.1 second or more, the length of the cancellation period is 0.1 second or more and one ninth or less of the length of the just-before discharging period, when one ninth of the length of the just-before discharging period is less than 0.1 second, the length of the cancellation period is 0.1 second, when one eleventh of the length of the just-before charging period is less than 0.1 second and one ninth of the length of the just-before charging period is 0.1 second or more, the length of the cancellation period is 0.1 second or more and one ninth or less of the length of the just-before charging period, and when one ninth of the length of the just-before charging period is less than 0.1 second, the length of the cancellation period is 0.1 second,” are “intended use” language and it has been held that a recitation with respect to the manner in which a claimed apparatus is intended to be employed does not differentiate the claimed apparatus from a prior art apparatus satisfying the claimed structural limitations. Ex parte Masham, 2 USPQ2d 1647 (1987).
Please consider claim amendments using programming language. See MPEP §§ 2164.01(a) - 2164.08(c), especially, MPEP § 2164.06(c) for examples of computer programming cases.
Conclusion
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/Helen Oi K CONLEY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1752
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