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Withdrawn Rejection
The 35 U.S.C. 102(a/1,2) rejection of claims 19-20 over Hao is withdrawn due to Applicant’s amendment filed on October 30, 2025.
Response to Request for Reconsideration
Withdrawn Rejection
The 35 U.S.C. 112(b) rejection of claims 1-20 is withdrawn due to Applicant’s clarification that the term “superstrate” describes a laminate which contains three layers: a core body, an electrically conductive layer and a capping layer, in the remarks section of the response filed on October 30, 2025.
New Rejection
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The text of those sections of Title 35, U.S. Code not included in this action can be found in a prior Office action.
Claims 1-20 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, how the core body can have an electrical conductivity of 1010 S/m, which is so many more magnitudes greater than the electrical conductivity of the so-called “electrically conductive layer” of 10-4 S/m, when the term “electrically conductive layer” conventionally allocates greater electrical conductivity.
It is unclear in claim 19, whether the sub-step of “solidifying the coating composition” involves removing solvent from the coating composition, in which case, the coating composition contains solvent which liquifies the coating composition”, or polymerizing and/or coupling liquid reactants forming the coating composition, resulting in solidification of the coating composition.
Claims 2-18 depend on and include all the subject matter of claim 1, and claim 20 depends on and includes all the subject matter of claim 19, but all fail to provide any solutions for the indefinite issues described above.
Clarification accompanied by relevant citation(s) from the specification and/or a teaching reference are required.
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/Sophie Hon/
Sow-Fun Hon
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1782
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