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 .
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 of this title, 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.
Claims 1,2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Aoki(JP2007/013251 (A)).
Considering Claim 1 Aoki discloses a remote control including an infrared lamp(See Paragraph 9,10,fig. 1 i.e. a remote control(fig.1) including an infrared lamp which is a light emitter unit(1) emitting infrared rays(6)), comprising: a reflector that controls reflection of infrared rays emitted from the infrared lamp provided at a tip end portion of the remote control(See Paragraph 9,10,fig. 1 i.e. a reflector(3) that controls reflection of infrared rays(6) emitted from the infrared lamp(1) provided at a tip end portion of the remote control(fig.1)).
Considering Claim 2 Aoki discloses the remote control according to claim 1, wherein the reflector includes a front edge, a left side edge, a right side edge, and a base(See Paragraph 9,10, fig. 1 i.e. fig. 1 illustrates a partial cross-section of a remote control wherein the reflector(3) shows a rectangular shape showing it includes a front edge, a left side edge, a right side edge, and a base).
Conclusion
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/HIBRET A WOLDEKIDAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2635