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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Species I in the reply filed on December 26, 2025 is acknowledged.
Drawings
The drawings were received on September 20, 2022. These drawings are acceptable.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 14 and 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Kamgaing et al. (US 2022/0406523).
Regarding claim 14, Kamgaing discloses a method of in-situ forming a three-dimensional (3D) capacitor on a package, the method comprising:
forming a through glass via (TGV) (220) in a glass core (202) [Fig. 2];
forming a first electrode (206) (i)
conformally depositing a dielectric material (208) directly on the first electrode, the dielectric material extending vertically and horizontally [Fig. 2 and paragraph 0032]; and
forming a second electrode (210) on and in contact with the dielectric material [Fig. 2].
Regarding claim 17, Kamgaing discloses wherein forming the first electrode (206) includes forming the first electrode (206) at least partially in the BTGV (204) adjacent to the TGV (220) [Fig. 2].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-6, 8, 13, and 19-20 are allowed.
Claim 18 is 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
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Duong et al. (US 2023/0091666) discloses a TGV (234/236) and a capacitor (210) [Fig. 2].
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/Jose R Diaz/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2815