DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or 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 Objections
Claim 26 is objected to because of the following informalities: Claim 26 is incorrectly dependent from the cancelled claim 1. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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(s) 35 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Nakagawa et al. [U.S. Patent No. 7920043 B2].
Regarding claim 35, Nakagawa discloses a magnetic inlay (e.g., planar magnetic device 1a with meander coil, see column 14, lines 63-67, Fig. 4, stacked with semiconductor chip 8 on substrate 2 in package 10a, 10b, see column 17, lines 53-67, Fig. 9 and 10) for a component carrier, wherein the magnetic inlay comprises:
a magnetic matrix having a plate-shape (e.g., magnetic device 1a comprising plate shape magnetic layers 3, 5, as shown in Fig. 3- 4; and
an inductive element at least partially embedded horizontally (e.g., coil 4 disposed horizontally) in the magnetic matrix (e.g., connectors 6 of coil 4 exposed), such that an electric current flow direction through the inductive element 4 is in a horizontal direction (e.g., current on meander coil 4 in horizontal direction on plate shape magnetic layers) with respect to the plate-shaped magnetic matrix (see Fig. 3 and 4).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 21-34 are allowable.
Reason for allowable subject matter:
Claim 21 recites, inter alia,
a stack comprising at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure;
a magnetic element assembled to the stack, wherein the magnetic element comprises a magnetic matrix; and an inductive element,
an electrical connector formed on the stack has a direction of main extension oriented substantially parallel to a direction of main extension of the stack, and
wherein a first part of the electrical connector is electrically connected to a first part of the inductive element and a second part of the electrical connector is electrically connected to a second part of the inductive element, such that an electric current flow direction through the inductive element is in a horizontal direction with respect to the stack.
The references of record do not teach or suggest the aforementioned limitation, would it be obvious to modify those references to include such limitation.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/J.S.B/ Examiner, Art Unit 2837
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