DETAILED ACTION
This is the first Office Action regarding application number 19/138,158, filed on 06/12/2025, which is a 371 of PCT/NO2023/060120, filed on 12/11/2023, and which claims foreign priority to NO 20221329, filed on 12/12/2022.
Status of Claims
Claims 19-38 are currently pending.
Claims 1-18 are canceled.
Claims 19-38 are new.
Claims 19-38 are examined below.
No claim is allowed.
Claim Objections
Claims 20-38 are 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.
The prior art references reviewed by this examiner do not teach or suggest further modifications of the BAE reference cited below to arrive at the features recited in claims 20-38.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 19 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by BAE (KR 2011-0101508 A)
Regarding claim 19, BAE teaches a floating solar energy production device, comprising
a frame structure (120+130+140) with a top end (12) and a bottom end (13) formed by pipe elements (14) (pipes 122) connected to one another at nodes (15) to form polygonal areas (16) for mounting solar panels (solar panels 110 are formed over polygonal area formed by the pipes, Fig. 1);
a plurality of connected solar panels (31) (solar panels 110) arranged and mounted at the polygonal areas (16) to form a surface of a polyhedron structure (11),
wherein the polyhedron structure (11) defines an interior (Fig. 1 illustrates a plurality of frame elements forming a frame structure that forms a polyhedral boundary surface), and
a central buoyancy body (20) (tank 141) is arranged within the interior in a manner allowing vertical displacement thereof (a portion of tank 141 extends within a polyhedral boundary formed by the arrangement of the plurality of pipes and support elements 121+121).
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Conclusion
No claim is allowed.
Contact Information
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to ANGELO TRIVISONNO whose telephone number is (571) 272-5201 or by email at <angelo.trivisonno@uspto.gov>. The examiner can normally be reached on MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9:00a-5:00pm EST. The examiner's supervisor, NIKI BAKHTIARI, can be reached at (571) 272-3433.
/ANGELO TRIVISONNO/
Primary Examiner
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