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 .
ART REJECTION:
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)(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) 1-24 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wang et al(USPGPUB 2021/0350572 A1).
-- In considering claims 1-6, the claimed subject matter that is met by Wang et al(Wang) includes:
An apparatus for detecting a dangerous driving vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a server communication circuit; and a server processor functionally connected to the server communication circuit, the server processor configured to: provide coordinate information for a specific area of a road to a movable photographing device, receive a photographed image for the specific area of the road corresponding to the coordinate information from the movable photographing device, detect at least one vehicle object from the photographed image, detect driving information of the detected at least one vehicle object, check whether the driving information satisfies a predefined dangerous driving condition, and if the dangerous driving condition is satisfied, determine a vehicle corresponding to the driving information as a dangerous driving vehicle is met by the first determining unit(710) of apparatus(700), which obtains a first image including a plurality of physical reference points, and including the second determining unit(730) to determine3 location coordinates, so as to provide information to a vehicle pertaining to safe driving to avoid danger(see: sec[0071-0072; 0120-0125]).
-- Claims 7-24 recite methods that substantially correspond to the subject matter of claims 1-6, and therefore, are met for the reasons as discussed in rejection of claims 1-6 above.
Conclusion
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/DARYL C POPE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2686
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