This Office Action is in response to the response filed on January 18, 2026.
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group II, claims 5-15, is acknowledged. Claims 1-4 are withdrawn from further consideration.
Claim 14 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention. Specifically, claim 14 is indefinite in reciting “a third isolation layer” and “the third isolation layer” because claim 14 does not earlier recite first and second isolation layers. Claim 14 should apparently depend on claim 12.
Claims 5-13 and 15 are objected to as being dependent upon a withdrawn base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the withdrawn base claim and any intervening claims.
The prior art does not disclose or suggest claims 9 and 15 as a whole.
Registered practitioners can telephone the examiner at (571) 272-1843. Any voicemail message left for the examiner should include the registration number of the registered practitioner calling. The examiner’s supervisor is Wael Fahmy, whose telephone number is (571) 272-1705.
/MARK V PRENTY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2814
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