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 .
Response to Amendment
The amendment filed 2026 February 3 is considered. A search of claim 1 is extended to a compound of the following scope: NR3R4 forms a piperidine ring; X, Y, and Z are each CH; R2 is H; W is CH or N; and R1 is a substituted C3-alkyl group. In the previous action, the search was extended to a compound in which R3 is a heterocyclic group.
Priority
Applicant’s claim for the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is acknowledged. Applicant has not complied with one or more conditions for receiving the benefit of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 120 as follows:
The later-filed application must be an application for a patent for an invention which is also disclosed in the prior application (the parent or original nonprovisional application or provisional application). The disclosure of the invention in the parent application and in the later-filed application must be sufficient to comply with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, except for the best mode requirement. See Transco Products, Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994).
The disclosure of the prior-filed application, Application No. 63/026263, fails to provide adequate support or enablement in the manner provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph for one or more claims of this application. Variable R2 is different in the provisional application and does not provide support for examined variable R2. As shown by the teachings below, variable R2 is different scopes in the examined application and the provisional application. Consequently the effective filing date of the examined application is 2021 May 13.
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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, 5-7, and 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by ZHOU (US 20150057248, published 2015 February 26). Zhou describes compounds HJC 1-24, HJC 1-81, and compounds A1-A5, and A8 (figure 1; figure 5A). In these compounds, the following definitions apply: NR3R4 forms a piperidine ring; X, Y, and Z are each CH; R2 is H; W is CH or N; and R1 is a substituted C3-alkyl group. Since R11 of examined claim 1 does not limit the substitution pattern of an alkyl group, this is prior art.
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Conclusion
Claims 1, 5-7, and 14 are not allowed.
Claims 2-4, 8-13, 15-18, 22, 25, 29, 30, 37, 38, and 44-46 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim in relation to the scopes of the searches done, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
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).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any nonprovisional extension fee (37 CFR 1.17(a)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/NOBLE E JARRELL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1699
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