DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. 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
2. The Applicants submitted claim amendments on 1/6/2026 in response to the office action mailed on 10/30/2025. The claim amendments have been entered and the status of the claims is as follows.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
3. Claims 1-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over (US 2021/01403704 A1) to Liu et al. (hereinafter Liu).
The above noted rejection is maintained.
Response to Arguments
4. Applicant's arguments filed 1/6/2026 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. Liu discloses at paragraph [0003] that the composition has 60 to 80% of a homopolymer polycarbonate, which reads on Applicants range of 45 to 90%. Applicants arguments all are directed toward additional elements disclosed by Liu. Applicants argue tracking is the novelty, which is not in claim 1, but only claim 2 and the claims use the term “comprising” that allows for additional elements and therefore the obviousness rejection is maintained as proper. Applicants may file an after final claim amendment to include BOTH claims 2 or 3 into independent claim 1 and it will be entered and found allowable.
Allowable Subject Matter
5. Claims 2 and 3 combined are 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.
6. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The polycarbonate composition having BOTH properties of claims 2 and 3 if placed into independent claim 1 would be sufficient to overcome the prior art.
Conclusion
7. THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/JEFFREY D WASHVILLE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1766