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 .
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Claim 1 contains brackets or parenthesis (i.e. “(with proviso that the following compound (B) is omitted)” and “(in Structural Formula (1)…”). Parenthesis and/or brackets in claims should only be used with labels/number from the specification or drawings. It is unclear whether the applicant intends these limitations to be a part of the claim. As such, dependent claims 2-6 are also rejected.
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) 1-6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Noiri et al. (JP 2017-193660), as cited on the IDS, wherein the machine English translation is used for citation.
Regarding claims 1-3; Noiri et al. teaches, in a preferred embodiment, a light curable composition (i.e. two-pack acrylic adhesive) comprising A-BPE-20 (ethylene oxide modified bisphenol A diacrylate manufactured by Shin-Nakamura Chemical Co.; average number of added EO: m + n = 17) and A-600 (polyethylene glycol diacrylate (n = 14) manufactured by Shin-Nakamura Chemical Co. [Ex3].
Regarding claims 4-6; Noiri et al. teaches the two-pack acrylic adhesive used in the production of the casting disappearance model of the present invention comprises a liquid A containing a polyfunctional (meth) acrylate and an organic peroxide, a liquid B containing a polyfunctional (meth) acrylate and a reducing agent. Equivalent amounts of Solution A and Solution B were mixed at 23 ° C. to prepare a cured product (claim 4) [037]. Noiri et al. teaches a disappearance model casting method is a method of manufacturing a disappearance model (cured product) based on synthetic resin as a base material, pouring molten metal (molten metal) into a disappearance model embedded in casting sand, burning (incinerating) the disappearance model to form a cavity and using the cavity as a mold, a casting having the same shape as the disappearance model is obtained [03] (claim 6).
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/JESSICA M ROSWELL/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1767