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 .
This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the claims the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the various claims was commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the claimed invention(s) absent any evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out the inventor and effective filing dates of each claim that was not commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the later invention in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(2)(C) for any potential 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) prior art against the later invention.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim(s) 2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim(s) 2 includes both a programming device and the method steps of using the programming device. The claim is indefinite insofar as the examiner is unclear as to whether the method of claim 1 is not directed to the programming device, but rather to actions of the programming device.
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 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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 and 3-6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yang (CN 116801446 A; see translation).
With regards to claim 1. Yang disclose(s):
A method (figs 1-8) for obtaining different addresses by changing internal logic values of a chip through light (fig 6; [lines 19-25 in page 8]), wherein the light containing address information is irradiated on a LED lamp bead (see figs 3-4; [lines 26-28 in page 5]), and then is transmitted to an IC chip inside the LED lamp bead (see figs 7-8; [lines 5-12 in page 10]), and after receiving electric current containing the address information, the IC chip automatically decodes to generate a logical address consistent with the address information carried by the light (lines 24-32 in page 10).
With regards to claim 3. Yang disclose(s):
An LED lamp bead, comprising the IC chip, wherein the logical address in the IC chip is obtained by using the method for obtaining different addresses by changing internal logic values of a chip through light according to claim 1 (see fig 8 for changing logic values of LED chip; see addresses in fig 6; [lines5-12 in page 10] [lines 19-25 in page 8]).
With regards to claim 4. Yang disclose(s):
The LED lamp bead according to claim 3, wherein the LED lamp bead has three-primary-color light-emitting units (see figs 3-4), and the three-primary-color light-emitting units are an R light-emitting unit (OUTR; RLED), a G light-emitting unit (OUTG; GLED)and a B light-emitting unit (OUTB; BLED), respectively .
With regards to claim 5. Yang disclose(s):
The LED lamp bead according to claim 4, wherein the three-primary-color light-emitting units (see figs 3-4) are all electrically connected to a VDD pin (VDD in fig 3), and are then electrically connected to a positive electrode of a power supply through the VDD pin (lines 20-21 in page 6).
With regards to claim 6. Yang disclose(s):
The LED lamp bead according to claim 5, wherein the IC chip is electrically connected to a controller for controlling the LED lamp bead through a DIN pin (see control data; [lines 33-34 in page 10] [lines 2531 in page 11]), and the IC chip is further electrically connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the power supply through the VDD and a VSS pin (see VDD and GND in fig 3), respectively.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Zhen (CN 109152133 A) discloses: rear placing writing code method and LED module based on wire transmission control signal and address signal, solving the problem that the LED lamp string in the large engineering difficult problem of low encoding efficiency.
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/RENAN LUQUE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2896