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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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`PAPER NUMBER
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`ART UNIT
`1797
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`DELIVERY MODE
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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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`1)IZI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 3/10/16.
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`2b)|ZI This action is non-final.
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`4)|:| Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
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`closed in accordance with the practice under Exparte Quay/e, 1935 CD. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims*
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`5)IZI Claim(s) 1-4 and 14 is/are pending in the application.
`5a) Of the above claim(s)
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`is/are allowed.
`6)I:I Claim(s)
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
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`12)I:| Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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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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`This Office action replaces the non-final dated 8/25/16.
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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 and 14 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102b as being
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`anticipated by Olson et al. (US 20030211619).
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`Olson discloses a bioiogioai information detection sensor feeding apparatus,
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`Comprising:
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`a body ease {cassette 102) having a feeding opening {opening at which the
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`device 10.? opens to the device i134 to eliow for the sensors to be fed to device i 04; fig.
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`, 4a. 4:: 4d, para ?5; er the drive wheei opening 152 which engages the drive teeth 158
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`on device 104, fig. 4a and lie) configured such that a bioiegical informatien measurer
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`can be attached thereto externaiiy;
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`a sterage seetian (iig. 4a, 5, sensers are stared within batty ease tit?) that states
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`a reii gt a senser feeding fiiht in the heady ease (fig, 5.6), the reii ef seneer feeding iiirn
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`inciuciing a stripushapeti heiding ieyer tiig. ta~t h hettem er recess pertieh ‘i88, gate 65}.
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`a strip—shaped severing iayer {ten er sever pettien 1236, para 58, and a pitiraiity at
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`hiaiagicai inierrnatian deieetian sensai‘s sandwiehet‘i between the strieshapet‘i heiciing
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`and severing Eeyers {fig 6, para 68 states the strip packaging putts apart er separate
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`wherein the hettern er recess gertien 168 at the packaging remains engaged with the
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`reiier “3133 and is caused ta advance in the direction at anew 128i: and wherein the tee
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`er never pertiah 12$ pertiah remains engaged with rather 120 and is caused te advance
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`in the directien at anew ‘iQBC. The tester 131323 heeemes expeseci as it passes threugh
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`reiters 1 t8 and 126 and is itexeci away item its recess. Each tester is heat seated tn the
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`inside at the recess in which it is packaged); and
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`a feeding seetian that teeds the eihraiity e‘i hieiegieai iniai'niatien detectien
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`sensers train the sterage seetien ta the feeding epening tiig. 6, 8), wherein:
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`the feeding seetisn {here 68‘) is configured in feed the pieraiity 0f hieiegieai
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`infermatien detection sensers to the feeding epening, anti separate the strieshaped
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`covering and heiding ieyers frern each ether heiere feeding the pinreiity ei hiniegieei
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`inferntetien detectinn sensers tn the feeding epening;
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`the feeding seetieh {para 88., $75 is configured in feed one Of the pitiraiity of
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`hieiegieat information detectien senseizs fed to the feeding epening into the bieiegicai
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`inferrnetien ineeetirei: when the hieiegieai :‘nfennatien measurer is attached tn the
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`feeding opening externaliy, and
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`the feeding eectieh ie cenfigurett te r‘eieaee and transfer the ieaded hieiegicai
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`infermatien detectien eenser tn the hieiegicai infermatien meaeurer when the attached
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`bieiegicai infermatien ineaeerer is phi/ed eat item the feeding sectien.
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`Regarding ciaiin 2, wherein: the feeding eectien has a first winding mechaniein
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`NEG) that winds; the eenatateti etrin Shaped covering iayei (i 2C3 eneei), and a eecene
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`winding mechanism (188} that winde the separated Strip shaped heiding iayei‘; and each
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`at the titet winding mechaniem and the seccnd winding mechanism incinciee e cintch
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`mechanism (here 6? gears).
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`Regarding ciaini 3, wherein: the hieiegicai inicnnatien theaenret incindee a
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`ccnnectet and the nintaiity ct hieiegicai iniennatien detectien sensete, each at the
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`pieraiity et‘ hieicgicai inicnnaticn detection aenecta inciticiing a connecting eiecttede;
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`and the feeding section is configured te teed ene at the niuraiity ei‘ hieiegicai iniermatien
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`detectien eenecie tn the feeding eeening each that the cennecting eiectrct‘ie hi the
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`hieicgicei inienneticn cietectien aeneci teci te the feeding epening ia eiectriceiiy
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`ccnnecteci with the cennectet at the hieicgicei intetineticn meaaei‘er attached tc the
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`feeding eeening (eiairn t has not peeitiveiy recite the measuret eniy that a body case
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`having a teed enening centiguree in her attachment to a nieaetii‘ei).
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`Regarding ciaiin 4, wherein: the feeding epening incint‘iee a pair at i'etatahie
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`eendwiching ciawa {aei‘eckete the en each i‘eiiet attach to cpeninge 165); and the
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`feeding eectien is cenfigered t0 feed ene 01‘ the pieraiity of hieiegicai infermatien
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`detection eeneers to the feeding opening each that the piuraiity of hieiegicai infermatien
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`detectien sensors; are sandwiched by the pair of the eandwiching ciawe.
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`Regarding claim 14, a pair at sandwiching claws, the sprccketa 164 ch each
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`roller attached tn the ppeninga grab the test rali and advance the wit,
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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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`examiner should be directed to SAM P. SIEFKE whose telephone number is (571 )272—
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