DETAILED ACTION
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.
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.
Claims 14-29 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 14, the metes and bounds of the traversing movement are not clear. The first limitation states that the traversing movement is predefined using program instructions and then the last limitation determines the traversing movement. Is the last limitation updating or overwriting the predefined traversing limitation in the first limitation? What is the relationship between the predefined traversing movement and the determined traversing movement?
Claims 15-29 depend, directly or indirectly, from independent claim 14 and are rejected based on their dependency thereto.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
B. Sencer and E. Shamoto, "Curvature-continuous sharp corner smoothing scheme for Cartesian motion systems," 2014 IEEE 13th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC), Yokohama, Japan, 2014, pp. 374-379 describes a sharp corner smoothing scheme.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2024/0231309 describes determining an allowable speed at a corner part for a numerical controller.
U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2020/0363788 describes a numerical controller that uses continuous desired speed to determine a movement profile.
U.S. Patent No. 9,886,020 describes a numerical control device for acquiring acceleration/deceleration information.
U.S. Patent No. 9,678,500 describes a numerical control device that sets acceleration and deceleration parameters.
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