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Notice of 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 Interpretation
Regarding Claims 1, 11, and 20, the Examiner interprets the claim limitations “a coordinate transformation between the first device, a hand joint holding the second device, and the second device” (Lines 6 – 7 of Claim 1, Lines 9 – 10 of Claim 11, and Lines 7 – 8 of Claim 20) to require a singular coordinate transformation between all of the three separate coordinate sets of the first device, a hand joint holding the second device, and the second device. In other words, said limitations are more limiting than a transformation between a pairing of any two separate coordinate sets of the three separate coordinate sets. Notice that the interpretation of Claims 1 and 11 carries into Claims 2 – 10 and 12 – 19, respectively, via claim dependency.
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.
Claims 1 – 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claims contain subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Regarding Claims 1, 11, and 20, the Specification provides support for identifying plural coordinate transformations, one between the claimed first device and the hand joint holding the second device and one between the claimed hand joint holding the second device and the second device (Paragraphs [0173] and [0183]), but the Specification fails to describe the creation of a singular coordinate transformation between the three separate coordinate sets of the first device, a hand joint holding the second device, and the second device as interpreted above. Note that Claims 2 – 10 and 12 – 19 fall rejected respectively with Claims 1 and 11 due to claim dependency.
Prior Art of Record
In the prior art of Cowburn et al. (United States Patent Application Publication US 2021/0241529 A1, Cited in the IDS filed July 21, 2023 of parent application 18/357,050), it has been shown to provide for a method, server, and non-transitory computer-readable medium as described in all of the non patent literature documents cited in the IDS filed April 16, 2025 regarding parent application 18/357,050. However, Cowburn fails to explicitly describe a singular transformation of all three entities as found in the limitations of Claims 1, 11, and 20.
Conclusion
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/BRIAN M BUTCHER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2627
January 08, 2026