CTNF 18/886,020 CTNF 84771 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia 1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. 2. Claims 12, 14-32, 34-52, 54-83 are pending in this preliminary amended application. Priority 3. Acknowledgement is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority based on application JP 2020-092545 filed on 05/27/2020 under 35 U.S.C 119(a)-(d). This application discloses and claims only subject matter disclosed in priorApplication #s. 17/324,417 & 18/490,800 filed on 05/19/2021 & 10/20/2023, and name an inventor or inventors named in the prior application. Accordingly, this application may constitute a continuation or division. Should applicant desire to obtain the benefit of the filing date of the prior application, attention is directed to 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78. Drawings 4. The drawing has been filed on 09/16/2024 are acceptable for examination purpose. Information Disclosure Statement 5. The information disclosure statement filed on 02/05/2025 is in compliance with the provision of the 37 CFR 1.97 and therefore has been considered. Double Patenting 08-33 AIA 6. The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory double patenting rejection is appropriate where the claims at issue are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg , 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman , 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi , 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum , 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel , 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington , 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969). A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the reference application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement. A terminal disclaimer must be signed in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(b). Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b). 7. Claims 12, 14-32, 34-52, 54-83 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-19 of U.S. Patent(s) 11,829,659 B2 (and 12,204,803 B2). It is clear that all the elements of an instant application independent claims 12, 32, 52 are to be found at least in patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ) claims 1, 11-12 as the instant application independent claims fully encompasses the patent claim 1, 11-12. The difference between the instant application independent claims 12, 32, 52 and the patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ) claims 1, 11-12 lies in the fact that the patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ) claim includes many more elements and is thus much more specific. Thus, the invention of claims 1, 11-12 of the patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ) is in effect a “species” of the “generic” invention of the application independent claims 12, 32, 52. It has been held that the generic invention is “anticipated” by the “species”. See In re Goodman, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993). Since application independent claims 12, 32, 52 are anticipated by claims 1, 11-12 of the patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ), it is not patentably distinct from claims 1, 11-12 of the patent ( U.S. Patent No. 11,829,659 B2 ). The dependent claims 14-31, 34-51, 54-83 of the instant application obviously claim the same subject matter as found in the claims 2-10, 13-19 of the parent patent’ 659 and therefore would be rejected based on the claims 2-10, 13-19 of the parent patent’ 659. Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-07 AIA 07-97 12-51-07 6. Claim s 12, 14-32, 34-52, 54-83 are allowed. REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE 13-03 AIA 7. The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance : Akuta et al. ( US Pub 2016/0364191, cited in IDS ) teaches at least in Figs. 1, 5-10, & paras., 0067-0073 that a printer 100 accepts an input user ID. from a student who logs in to the printing management system 1 by inputting the user identification information (e.g., a user ID) using the touchscreen of the printer 100. The student specifies the subject and the number of copies of the note paper F 1 , the student chooses a template corresponding to the desired mathematics subject from a list of formants displayed on the touchscreen of the printer 100. The printer 100 accepts an instruction to print the note paper F 1 based on the student’s instruction to print the note paper F 1 by touching a “ start print ” button. The printer 100 accepts the print instruction, the template identification information indicating a specified template, and a specified printed copy count, in association with the user identification information. The printer 100 transmits a print instruction to server and acquires the total number of printed copies NP, the total number of read copies NR, the reference copy count NA, and the correction copy count NS. Specifically, the printer 100 receives the total number of printed copies NP, the total number of read copies NR, the reference copy count NA, and the correction copy count NS transmitted. from the server apparatus 200. . The independent claim 12 is allowable over the prior arts of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fails to particularly anticipate or disclose or suggest the claim limitations recited “ perform control to display, on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, an item selecting screen including a first item indicating "assigned", a second item indicating "submitted", and a third item indicating "scored"; perform control to display, on the display unit, a file selecting screen for selecting a file to be printed, from files managed by a cloud service for sharing a file between a teacher and a student, wherein the files correspond to the item selected in the item selecting screen, and perform control to display a print instruction screen including a printing button for accepting a print instruction for causing a printer to print a file selected in the file selecting screen and a display element indicating setting content of a sheet size set as print setting, by being switched from the file selecting screen in response to a user operation performed on the file selecting screen ”, in combination with all other limitations as claimed in independent claim 12. The independent claim 32 is allowable over the prior arts of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fails to particularly anticipate or disclose or suggest the claim limitations recited “ performing control to display, on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, an item selecting screen including a first item indicating "assigned", a second item indicating "submitted", and a third item indicating "scored"; performing control to display, on the display unit, a file selecting screen for selecting a file to be printed, from files managed by a cloud service for sharing a file between a teacher and a student, wherein the files correspond to the item selected in the item selecting screen, and performing control to display a print instruction screen including a printing button for accepting a print instruction for causing a printer to print a file selected in the file selecting screen and a display element indicating setting content of a sheet size set as a print setting, by being switched from the file selecting screen in response to a user operation performed on the file selecting screen ”, in combination with all other limitations as claimed in independent claim 32. The independent claim 52 is allowable over the prior arts of record since the cited references taken individually or in combination fails to particularly anticipate or disclose or suggest the claim limitations recited “ performing control to display, on a display unit of the information processing apparatus, an item selecting screen including a first item indicating "assigned", a second item indicating "submitted", and a third item indicating "scored"; performing control to display, on the display unit, a file selecting screen for selecting a file to be printed, from files managed by a cloud service for sharing a file between a teacher and a student, wherein the files correspond to the item selected in the item selecting screen, and performing control to display a print instruction screen including a printing button for accepting a print instruction for causing a printer to print a file selected in the file selecting screen and a display element indicating setting content of a sheet size set as a print setting, by being switched from the file selecting screen in response to a user operation performed on the file selecting screen ”, in combination with all other limitations as claimed in independent claim 52 . Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.” Conclusion 8. Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to HARIS SABAH whose telephone number is (571)270-3917. The examiner can normally be reached on Monday/Friday from 9:00AM to 5:30PM EST. If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone are unsuccessful, the examiner's supervisor, Benny Tieu, can be reached on (571)272-7490. The fax phone number for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned is 571-273-8300. The Examiner’s personal fax number is (571)270-4917. Information regarding the status of an application may be obtained from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. 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