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`14/236,247
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`01/30/2014
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`Shinichi Yasui
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`20186.0036USWO
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`ART UNIT
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`08/25/2016
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`ELECTRONIC
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`Applicant(s)
`Application No.
` 14/236,247 YASUI, SHINICHI
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`Examiner
`Art Unit
`AIA (First Inventor to File)
`Office Action Summary
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`SAM P. SIEFKE its“ 1797
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`Application/Control Number: 14/236,247
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`Art Unit: 1797
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent
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`provisions.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C.
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`102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country
`or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of application
`for patent in the United States.
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`Claims 1-4 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102b as being anticipated by
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`Olson et al. (US 20030211619).
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`Olson discloses e hioiogioai information detection sensor Feeding aoperatns,
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`comprising:
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`a body ease (cassette 102} having a feeding epening (epening at which the
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`devise i02 opene to the device 104 to eliow fer the sensers to be ted to device 104; fig.
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`, 4e, 4c: 4d, oare Y5; er the drive wheei opening 152 which engages the drive teeth 158
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`an device tttzi, fig. die and 4e) configured such that a bioiogioel information meesurer‘
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`can be attached thereto externeiiy;
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`a storage seetien (fig. 4a, 5, sensore are stored within hedy ease i02) that steree
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`a roii oi e senser feeding fiirn in the body case (tig. 5,8), the reii ef eeneer feeding iiirn
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`inoitiding a strip—shaped heiding iayer (fig. te~t to oettern or recess; portien 158, para 58),
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`a etripehaped havering iayer {the at sever pettien 128, para 88, and e pitrraiity et
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`hieiegicai inierrnatien detectien eeneere sandwiched between the etripehaped heiding
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`and covering iayere ttig. 6, para 68 States the strip packaging euiie apart er separate
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`wherein the hettern er reeeee eertien 1653 at the packaging remains engaged with the
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`reiter ‘i 12:? and is; caused to advance in the direction at anew 12% and wherein the tee
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`er sever pertien 126 pertien remains engaged with reiier 129 and is caused to advance
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`in the directien et arrew tESe The teeter 133a heeernee exposed as it eaeeee threugh
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`reitere HS and we and he tiexed away horn ite reeeeei Eaeh teeter is; heat eeaied te the
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`inside at the reeeee in which it is; packaged); and
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`a feeding seetien that feeds the pitiraiity at hieiegieai inferrnatien detection
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`eeneere trern the eterage seetien to the feeding epening {fig 6, 8), wherein:
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`the feeding eeetien {para 68) ie eenfigttred te feed the pteraiity 0f hietegieai
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`tnferrnetien deteetten eeneers te the feeding epening, and separate the etnpeheped
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`severing and hetding tat/ere from each ether hetere feeding the ptereiity er“ hietegieei
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`infer‘matien detectien sensere te the feeding epening;
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`the feeding eeetien {para 58, 75 ie centigered tr} feed One at the pieretity et
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`hteiegteel intermetteh detection eeneere fed te the feeding epehtng mm the hr‘eiegteet
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`infermetien measures when the htetegteei infermatieh meaeerer is attached ta the
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`feeding Opening externaliyq and
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`the feeding eeetien ie centigered tr} reieaee and tranefer the teaded hieiegr’eat
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`tnferrnetien deteetten eeneer te the hteiegteei inferrnetten meeeerer when the attached
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`hieiegtcet tnfermetien tneeetrrer is pulled out tram the feeding eeetien.
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`Regarding ciaini 2, wherein: the feeding eeeticn has; a iiret wineing mechanism
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`(123} that winds the separated strip shaped (severing iayer (t 2G eceei), and a eecent‘i
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`winding mechanism (188) that winds the Separated strip shaped heiding iayer; and each
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`at the first winding mechanism and the eeennd winding rneehanieh’i incindee a cititch
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`meehaniern (para 8?” gears).
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`Regarding ciaini 31 wherein: the hieiegicai intnrmatien ineasurei' inciudes a
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`ccnnecter and the nieraiity ct hieingicai iniermatinn detectien eenenret each at the
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`pieraiity ni hieicgicai intennaticn detection eenecre incinding a connecting eiectrnde;
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`and the feeding section is ccntigni‘ee te teed ene ci the ninraiity ei‘ hiningicai ii’i‘fOi’iTia‘iiOi'i
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`detection eenenre tn the feeding opening such that the cennecting eiectrcde cf the
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`hieingicai iniennatinn detectien senenr ted to the feeding opening is eiectricaiiy
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`ennneetee with the cennectnr at the hieingicai intermatinn measurer attached tc the
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`feeding cpening (ciairn t has not peeiiiveiy recite the measurei‘ cniy that a body caee
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`having a feed enening centignred te for attachment tc a ineaeurer).
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`Regarding ciairn 4, wherein: the feeding opening incinciee a pair of i‘etatahie
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`eandwiching ciawe {anteckete 154 on each rniiei attach tn npeninge “366); and the
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`ieeding eeeiien ie cenfigured to feed one of the piuraiity of bieiegicai infermaticn
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`detection aeneers tn the feeding opening each that the piuraiity cf biniegicai infnrmatien
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`detectinn sensers are sandwiched by the pair at the amen/inning Gian/3,
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`Response to Arguments
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`Applicant’s arguments with respect to claims 1-4 have been considered but are
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`moot because the arguments do not apply to any of the references being used in the
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`current rejection.
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`Conclusion
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`Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
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