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 .
Response to Amendment
Withdrawn Rejections
The 35 U.S.C. 103 rejection of claims 1-2, 4-6 over Feiler in view of Li, is withdrawn due to Applicant’s amendment filed on December 12, 2025.
The 35 U.S.C. 103 rejection of claims 1-4 over Hunger in view of Li, is withdrawn due to Applicant’s amendment filed on December 12, 2025.
New Rejection
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claims 1-2, 4-6 are 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.
It is unclear in claim 1, for the formula (ph1) in line 9, what the label “**” also represents, aside from representing a point of attachment to B, if the label “*” represents a point of attachment to A, together with a point of attachment to L1, because there is no “**” label in any of the formulas (t1), (t2), (t3) and (t5), just “*”.
Furthermore, in claim 1, it is unclear in lines 21-22, whether the recitation of “a hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, or a halogen group” means that it is the hydrocarbon group that optionally has a substituent, a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, or a halogen group, or that the hydrocarbon group optionally having a substituent, is a separate member of a Markush group further consisting of a heterocyclic group, a cyano group, or a halogen group.
Claims 2, 4-6 depend on and contain all the subject matter of claim 1, but all fail to provide any solutions for the indefinite issues described above.
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/Sophie Hon/
Sow-Fun Hon
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1782