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 § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Warwick (US4,467,939).
1. Warwick teaches a container (Fig. 1), comprising a body having a top surface (container lid) and a first side surface (12) and a second side surface (opposite 12) arranged opposite to each other; wherein a groove (in the below annotated Fig. 5) is formed on the top surface, the groove extends from the first side surface to the second side surface and divides the top surface into a first part (left side of the lid in Fig. 3) and a second part (right side of the lid in Fig. 3), both the first part and the second part are slantwise (Fig. 5) arranged downwards towards the groove; and a bottom surface (in the below annotated Fig. 5) of the groove is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end of the groove, such that when rainwater falls on the first part and the second part, the rainwater flows into the groove under a guidance of the first part and the second part, and flows out of the top surface under the guidance of the groove (Fig. 2).
2. The container according to claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the groove is constructed to be slantwise arranged downwards from a middle part of the groove towards the first side surface and the second side surface, respectively (Fig. 1).
3. The container according to claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of the groove is constructed to be slantwise arranged downwards from the first side surface to the second side surface (Fig. 1).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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) 10-12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Warwick.
10. A container (Fig. 1), the container comprising a body (Fig. 1) having a top surface (lid) and a first side surface (12) and a second side surface (opposite of 12) arranged opposite to each other; wherein a groove (in the below annotated Fig. 5) is formed on the top surface, the groove extends from the first side surface to the second side surface and divides the top surface into a first part (left side of the lid) and a second part (right side of the lid), both the first part and the second part are slantwise arranged downwards towards the groove (in the below annotated Fig. 5); and a bottom surface of the groove is slantwise arranged downwards towards at least one end of the groove, such that when rainwater falls on the first part and the second part, the rainwater flows into the groove under a guidance of the first part and the second part, and flows out of the top surface under the guidance of the groove (Fig. 2). Warwick DIFFERS in that it does not disclose the container is a data center. Warwick does disclose the container can be used to store known objects. Therefore, it would have been obvious, to one of ordinary skill within the art, at the time the invention was made, to modify Warwick, by allowing the container to be a data center container, in order to house data.
11. The data center according to claim 10, wherein the bottom surface of the groove is constructed to be slantwise arranged downwards from a middle part of the groove towards the first side surface and the second side surface, respectively (Fig. 1).
12. The data center according to claim 10, wherein the bottom surface of the groove is constructed to be slantwise arranged downwards from the first side surface to the second side surface (Fig. 1).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-9 and 13-18 are 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
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/KAREEN K THOMAS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3736