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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because fig 4 box 6 ,1,2 and fig 1 box 1 need to be labelled descriptively with text . Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 15-22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to an abstract idea without significantly more . The claims recite routine data gathering such as determining inertia and different weighting and determining force value . The judicial exception is not integrated into a practical application. The machine element and transmission facility are generic and are not adding significantly more than abstract idea. Element does not integrate abstract idea into a practical application because it does not impose any meaningful limits on practicing abstract idea.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1, 2, 15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Bitterolf et al (2020/0159189) and EP0604672 both cited by Applicant .
Bitterolf et al discloses a closed loop controller structure comprising fist drive controlled first pilot force value and acting on a machine element via transmission facility , a second drive controller by second pilot force value and acting directly on machine element for movement of machine element in relation to axis , see fig 1 and 2 F1V and F2V , inertia taken into account , see paragraph 55 . Weighting is also disclosed in paragraph 56 -57 fig 2 18,21 . Bitterolf et al lacks disclosing third determination facility comprising first inertia that determine firs axis inertia and second inertia determination facility that determine second axis inertia , and applying inertia to force value . EP0604672 discloses control system for axle drive system , wherein fig 1 is to be applied individually for several drives coupled to each other , mass moment of inertia is determined for all parts belong to drive system, see claim 1-3 and paragraph 13-19 , mass moments of inertia are used for control. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine Bitterolf et al with third determination of EP0604672 for improved control.
Claim 3-14 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 20180083562 discloses moments of inertia with machine tool.
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/KAREN MASIH/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2846
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