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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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Drawings
The originally filed drawings were received on 2/11/2022. These drawings are acceptable.
Specification
The lengthy specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors. Applicant’s cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which applicant may become aware in the specification.
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
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) 1, 9, 12, 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kuo (U.S. Patent Application Publication US 2020/0393652 A1).
Kuo discloses an optical imaging system (See for example Abstract; Figures 1-27; and in particular Figure 1), sequentially comprising, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a diaphragm (See for example 100 in Figure 1); a first lens (See for example 110 in Figure 1; Lens 1 in Table 1 with Focal Length +5.38, positive power) with a refractive power, an image-side surface thereof being a convex surface (See for example 112 in Figure 1; surface 3 in Table 1 with radius of curvature -60.625, convex); a second lens (See for example 120 in Figure 1; Lens 2 in Table 1 with Focal Length -9.76, negative power) with a refractive power; a third lens (See for example 130 in Figure 1; Lens 3 in Table 1 with Focal Length -30.86, negative power) with a negative refractive power; a fourth lens (See for example 150 in Figure 1; Lens 5 in Table 1 with Focal Length +25.45, positive power) with a refractive power, an image-side surface thereof being a convex surface (See for example 152 in Figure 1; surface 12 in Table 1 with radius of curvature -13.297, convex); a fifth lens (See for example 160 in Figure 1; Lens 6 in Table 1 with Focal Length +13.87, positive power) with a refractive power, an object-side surface thereof being a concave surface (See for example 161 in Figure 1; surface 13 in Table 1 with radius of curvature -13.576, concave); a sixth lens (See for example 180 in Figure 1; Lens 8 in Table 1 with Focal Length +7.65, positive power) with a refractive power; and a seventh lens (See for example 190 in Figure 1; Lens 9 in Table 1 with Focal Length -7.28, negative power) with a refractive power, wherein EPD is an entrance pupil diameter of the optical imaging system, and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging system and EPD satisfy: f/EPD≤1.5 (See for example Paragraph 0129, wherein f/EPD=1.48); and at least one of an object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the seventh lens is an aspheric surface (See each of surfaces 2-5, 7-20 in Table 1, each of which are aspheres, as designated by (ASP); See also Table 2). Kuo further discloses a curvature radius R12 of an image-side surface of the sixth lens, a curvature radius R13 of an object-side surface of the seventh lens and a curvature radius R14 of the image-side surface of the seventh lens satisfy: 3.0<(R12+R13)/R14<4.5 (In the instant case, R12=2.372, R13=1.774. R14=1.119, and (R12+R13)/R14=3.705); a combined focal length f34 of the third lens and the fourth lens and a combined focal length f12 of the first lens and the second lens satisfy: 1.0<f34/f12<2.0 (In the instant case, f34=-30.86+25.45=-5.41, f12=5.38-9.76=-4.38, and f34/f12=1.235); and an Abbe number V2 of the second lens and an Abbe number V3 of the third lens satisfy: V2+V3<40 (In the instant case, V2=15.8, V3=15.8, and V2+V3=31.6).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 16-20 are allowed.
Claims 2-8, 10-11, 13, 15 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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ARNEL C. LAVARIAS
Primary Examiner
Group Art Unit 2872
8/2/2024
/ARNEL C LAVARIAS/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2872
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