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, 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 60 and 69 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Gilgan et al. (US Patent No. 8,887,399) in view of Hagen Jr. (US 7,168,216 B2).
Claim 60: Gilgan et al. discloses a system comprising a utility installation station (90-4 of Figure 6; Col. 5, Line 49 to Col. 6, Line 10); a first flip table (90-3 of Figure 5; Col. 5, Lines 44-48), and an insulation installation station (90-5 of Figure 7; Col. 6, Lines 11-23).
Gilgan et al. fails to disclose a second flip table.
However, Hagen Jr. teaches a method of manufacturing a wall structure that includes flipping the wall structure twice (206,252 of Figure 17).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to duplicate the flip table of Gilgan et al. in order to provide a second flip table as would be required by the method taught by Hagen Jr. Further it has long been held that the mere duplication of the essential working parts of a device involves only routine skill in the art. St, Regis Paper Co. v. Bemis Co., 193 USPQ 8.
The remainder of the limitations of the claim have been treated as the intended use of the claimed apparatus. Since the modified apparatus of Gilgan et al. is capable of performing the recited intended use the apparatus of Gilgan et al. meets the limitations of the claim. The recitation of a new intended use for an old product does not make a claim to an old product patentable. In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1477, 44 USPQ2d 1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997).
Claim 69: Hagen et al. further teaches an insulation installation station that includes one or more insulation robots having an insulation head that supplies insulation in the one or more cavities (Col. 26, Lines 3-7)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 61-68 and 70-74 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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/JASON L VAUGHAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3726