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 .
Election/Restrictions
Claims 3 is withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected species B, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 6/10/26.
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, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, and 15 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Landgraf (US 9,579,963 B2).
With respect to claims 1, 14, and 15, Landgraf discloses a vehicle with chassis or frame 5, front and rear wheels inherently with axles (not numbered), and batteries 2 arranged between said axles and also outside said axles, said batteries supported on said chassis, as shown in figure 2.
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With respect to claim 2, said batteries are in housings 3, 4, supported by said chassis, as shown in figure 2.
With respect to claim 4, said battery arrangement includes tree separate battery modules 3, 4, interconnected, as shown in figure 2.
With respect to claim 5, an intermediate battery module 3 is located in the central portion of the chassis, and front and rear battery modules at the front and rear sections of the vehicle, as shown in figure 2.
With respect to claims 7 and 8, said batteries are within a receiving chamber 7, said chamber fully enclosed with said batteries, as shown in figure 2.
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) 6, 9-13, and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Landgraf, as applied to claim 1 above.
With respect to claims, 6, 9-13, and 16, Landgraf does not explicitly disclose the motor, electrical connections between said batteries, or cooling circuit. These features are considered conventional in the art of vehicle battery systems and therefore, It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate the motor, the electrical connecting lines, and a cooling circuit, into the receiving chamber of the vehicle of Landgraf in order to provide power from said batteries to a motor to drive said wheels, and prevent the batteries from overheating, as is considered conventional in the art.
Conclusion
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JEFFREY J. RESTIFO
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 3613
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