Ex Parte Alves

Patent Trials and Appeals BoardMar 29, 2019

13698778 - (D) (P.T.A.B. Mar. 29, 2019)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE 13/698,778 12/27/2012 27350 7590 04/02/2019 LERNER GREENBERG STEMER LLP Box SA P.O. BOX 2480 HOLLYWOOD, FL 33022-2480 FIRST NAMED INVENTOR Clara Nogueira Alves UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www .uspto.gov ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO. 2010P05807 1068 EXAMINER MESA,JOSEM ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER 2484 NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 04/02/2019 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the following e-mail address(es): boxsa@patentusa.com docket@patentusa.com PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07) UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte CLARA NOGUEIRA ALVES Appeal 2018-007133 Application 13/698, 778 1 Technology Center 2400 Before JOHN A. EV ANS, HUNG H. BUI, and JOSEPH P. LENTIVECH, Administrative Patent Judges. BUI, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellant seeks our review under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 134(a) of the Examiner's Final Office Action rejecting claims 16-30, which are all the claims pending on appeal. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. Â§ 6(b ). We REVERSE. 2 1 According to Appellant, the real party in interest is Siemens S.A.S. App. Br. 1. 2 Our Decision refers to Appellant's Appeal Brief filed January 31, 2018 ("App. Br."); Reply Brief filed July 3, 2018 ("Reply Br."); Examiner's Answer mailed May 3, 2018 ("Ans."); Final Office Action mailed October 3, 2017 ("Final Act."); and original Specification filed November 19, 2012 ("Spec."). Appeal2018-007133 Application 13/698,778 STATEMENT OF THE CASE Appellant's invention relates to "a method and a system for securing a remote transmission of an image intended to be captured by a photosensitive receiver of a video system [shown in Figure 1]." Spec. 1:3-5. Figure 1 is reproduced below with additional markings for illustration. F!G 1 Figure 1 shows a video system including securing device 13 for securing a remote transmission of a video image taken by camera 11 on board vehicle 1 for visual display 22 at remote control station 2. According to Appellant, the video system "is a system for remotely viewing at least one image taken by said photosensitive receiver 111, said image being intended for example to enable an operator, located at the control station 2, to remotely control said vehicle 1 by viewing the real-time display of said image of said object." Spec. 19:7-12. Securing device 13, shown in Figures 2-3, is "intended to be coupled and to cooperate with such 2 Appeal2018-007133 Application 13/698,778 a video system so as to guarantee a match between the image of said object taken by the photosensitive receiver 111, and said image of said object displayable in real-time remotely using said display device 22." Spec. 19:12-15. This way "it [is] possible to automatically diagnose a failure of the video image of said object and to automatically trigger an alarm (visual, audible, vibrating, etc.)." Spec. 26: 18-20. For example, Figure 2 shows secure device 13 to secure camera 11 and generate an optical securing datum of the remote transmission of the image of an object, as reproduced below with additional markings for illustration. . .. Â¥