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 § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the enablement requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and/or use the invention.
Regarding claim 1, the recitation of “wherein the housing component enables a user to scan… information about a certain text; and further wherein the processor, the memory, and the input/output component process the information being scanned….by the housing component” was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to make and/or use the invention. It is unclear how the claimed “scan” actually occurs and what exactly is performing said “scan”. The only input/output component disclosed in applicant’s disclosure ([0016, 0042]) is a transmitter/receiver component, a touch screen or a stylus. No image sensor or camera or any component with an ability to ‘scan’ text is shown or described. Clarification is required.
Regarding claim 6, the recitation of “process information when scanned by the smart bookmark device, wherein the AI communicates with the processor, memory and input/output components to process information” was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to make and/or use the invention. It is unclear how the claimed “scan” actually occurs and what exactly is performing said “scan”. The only input/output component disclosed in applicant’s disclosure ([0016, 0042]) is a transmitter/receiver component, a touch screen or a stylus. No image sensor or camera or any component with an ability to ‘scan’ text is shown or described. Clarification is required.
Regarding claim 14, the recitation of “wherein the housing component enables a user to scan… information about a certain text; wherein the processor utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help process information when scanned by the smart bookmark device, wherein the AI communicates with the processor, memory and input/output components to process information and output definitions and other requested information scanned by the housing component” was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to make and/or use the invention. It is unclear how the claimed “scan” actually occurs and what exactly is performing said “scan”. The only input/output component disclosed in applicant’s disclosure ([0016, 0042]) is a transmitter/receiver component, a touch screen or a stylus. No image sensor or camera or any component with an ability to ‘scan’ text is shown or described. Clarification is required.
Regarding claim 20, the recitation of “utilizing AI and etymology functions to scan text and lookup information…utilizing the digital calculator when numbers or equations are scanned” was not described in the specification in such a way as to enable one skilled in the art to make and/or use the invention. It is unclear how the claimed “scan” actually occurs and what exactly is performing said “scan”. The only input/output component disclosed in applicant’s disclosure ([0016, 0042]) is a transmitter/receiver component, a touch screen or a stylus. No image sensor or camera or any component with an ability to ‘scan’ text is shown or described. Clarification is required.
Regarding claims 2-5, 7-13 and 15-19, each are rejected under 112 based at least on dependency.
Conclusion
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/kenneth bukowski/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2621