DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restrictions
Claims 4, 5 and 7-15 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected species, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 1/13/2026.
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) 1-3 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Nakagawa et al. (2005/0198920).
Regarding claims 1 and 6, Nakagawa teaches a printing device and control method comprising:
a shaft (fig. 5a, item 301) inserted in a cylindrical body (fig. 5a, item 101) of a medium roll (fig. 5a, item 100) in which a medium is wound around the cylindrical body that has a wireless tag (fig. 5a, item 110), and rotatably supporting the cylindrical body (see fig. 5a);
an antenna (fig. 5a, item 302) provided on the shaft configured to perform data communication with the wireless tag ([0114]);
a driver (se fig. 9, note that a driver is necessarily present) configured to rotate the cylindrical body having the wireless tag around the shaft (fig. 9); and
a controller (fig. 7, item 1) configured to control the driver such that the cylindrical body having the wireless tag rotates around the shaft by a predetermined angle (Note that it is assumed all rotations of the medium are done in predetermined amounts, and thus the rotations are by angle or length of medium, this is disclosed in figs. 8, 9).
Regarding claim 2, Nakagawa teaches the device according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the driver to repeat the rotation of the cylindrical body by the predetermined angle a plurality of times (see figs. 8, 9, Note that each beg length corresponds to a rotation amount, and thus a predetermined rotation amount is executed for each bag).
Regarding claim 3, Nakagawa teaches the device according to claim 2, further comprising:
a data communicator (fig. 7, item 302/110) configured to perform data communication with the wireless tag via the antenna ([0114]), wherein the controller configured to:
control the data communicator to perform the data communication with the wireless tag while the cylindrical body is not rotating ([0114]), and control, when data recorded on the wireless tag is acquired by the data communicator, the driver configured to rotate the cylindrical body in an opposite direction by an amount by which the cylindrical body is rotated until then (Note that no “forward direction” has been defined, and thus the claimed “opposite direction” could be either direction. Here, it is being taken to be the normal rotation direction).
Conclusion
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/ALEJANDRO VALENCIA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2853