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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group II, claims 18-24 in the reply filed on 09/08/2026 is acknowledged.
Claims 12-17 withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected invention, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 09/08/2026.
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 18-19 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by HSUEH (2023/0219288).
Regarding claim 18, HSUEH discloses a method for printing a three-dimensional
object from a printable material by a system including:
a printing device for a 3D printer (300-Fig.3a, [0029]),
a dosing device (306-Fig.3A) configured to fill the material to be printed, and
a discharge device (18-Fig.3A) configured to print the material provided via the dosing device, wherein the discharge device includes a first marking device (a sensor (marking device) is placed at or near the vat 312 connected to the discharge device 18 [0037], Fig.3A) configured to identify the printable material and/or the three-dimensional object,
wherein the dosing device includes a second marking device (a sensor is placed at or near the reservoir 302 connected to the dosing device 306 [0037], Fig.3A), and wherein the printing device includes a third marking device (the 3D printing apparatus may have one or more sensors [0052]); the method comprising:
prior to, or during, or after a filling process of the discharge device using the dosing device, storing process data of the printable material and/or the three- dimensional object, by the second marking device of the dosing device on a storage unit of the first marking device of the discharge device [0026]-[0028]; and
reading out the stored process data from the first marking device of the discharge device by the third marking device of the printing device prior to the printing of the three-dimensional object [0026]-[0028].
Regarding claim 19, HSUEH discloses a method for printing a three-dimensional object from a printable material using a system including:
a printing device for a 3D printer (300-Fig.3a, [0029]),
a dosing device (306-Fig.3A) configured to fill the material to be printed, and
a discharge device (18-Fig.3A) configured to print the material provided via the dosing device, wherein the discharge device includes a first marking device (a sensor (marking device) is placed at or near the vat 312 connected to the discharge device 18 [0037], Fig.3A) configured to identify the printable material and/or the three-dimensional object;
the method comprising:
storing process data of the printable material and/or the three-dimensional object in a networkor in a cloud [0026]-[0028]; and
assigning the process data to the printable material and/or the three-dimensional object, by an identification code [0035], [0038].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 20-24 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure:
a) CN 114986909 discloses a cloud service platform, 3D printing terminal, 3D printing system and automatic production method.
b) 2021/0206097 discloses a three-dimensional printer.
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STELLA YI
Examiner
Art Unit 1742
/STELLA K YI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1742
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