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 Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed on 5/22/26 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
On page 3 to page 4, line 6, the applicant argued that Raj does not disclose “a structure configured to receive a plurality of sets of differential input data” . However, the applicant’s argument is not persuasive because as shown in figure 6, elements 620 receives 2 input signals where each signal is set of input data (4 delay elements). In addition, a plurality could be interpreted as having more than 1.
On page 4, line 14 to page 5, the applicant argued that Raj does not disclose detecting rising/falling edges of the plurality of sets of differential output data. However, the applicant’s argument is not persuasive because edge detector 530 of Raj reference does detect the plurality of sets of the output signal ( falling (Fb and F are multiple) and rising (R and RB are multiple)).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
2. 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.
3. Claims 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Raj et al. (US 20150139257).
Regarding claim 1, Raj et al. discloses in figure 6 and specification:
1. An edge detector (see, 630, fig. 6, see also, paragraph [0041]-[0042]) applied to a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (see, 602, fig. 6), the edge detector comprising:
an alignment circuit (see, 620, fig. 6, see also, paragraph [0043], here, equalization delay module 620) configured to receive a plurality of sets of differential input data, and align the plurality of sets of differential input data to output a plurality of sets of corresponding differential output data, wherein the plurality of sets of differential output data comprise a set of delayed differential output data (see, paragraph [0043]);
a rising-edge detecting circuit (see, paragraph [0043], here, the rising edge detector 430) coupled to the alignment circuit, the rising-edge detecting circuit configured to detect rising edges of the plurality of sets of differential output data to output a plurality of sets of corresponding differential rising data; and
a falling-edge detecting circuit (see, paragraph [0043], here, the falling edge detector 440) coupled to the alignment circuit, the falling-edge detecting circuit configured to detect falling edges of the plurality of sets of differential output data to output a plurality of sets of corresponding differential falling data (see, paragraph [0043]).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 to 10 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.
Conclusion
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