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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments, see remarks filed on 07/13/2026 with respect to claims 1-4 and 8-20 have been fully considered and are persuasive. The 35 U.S.C 102, 35 U.S.C 103 and the obviousness double patenting rejection of claims 1-4 and 8-20 has been withdrawn. Claims 21-23 are new claims filed with the amendments filed on 07/13/2026.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1, 8 and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention. Amended claims 1, 8 and 16 recites “selecting, from a first set of lines detected in the image, a second set of lines that are within a threshold angle of a midpoint line of a bounding box”. The above recital in claims 1, 8 and 16 is neither shown nor described in the specification and therefore raises new matter issues. Specification as filed paragraph 0071 discloses “ In some implementations, the user device may perform perspective correction on the image of the document based on marking the four corner points as corners of the document. In some implementations, the user device may remove the one or more lines from the set of lines by generating a first midpoint line that connects midpoints of a first pair of opposite edges of the bounding rectangle, generating a second midpoint line that connects midpoints of a second pair of opposite edges of the bounding rectangle, and removing the one or more lines that are not within a threshold angle of the first midpoint line or the second midpoint line. The above recital in the claims 1, 8 and 16 is contradictory to what is described in the specification and therefore raises new matter issues. Claims 2-4, 9-15 and 17-23 depend on claims 1, 8 and 16, therefore they are rejected.
NOTE. Due to the 35 U.S.C 112(a) rejections, the prior art rejections cannot be determined.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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