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 § 102
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 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by [Mao et al (Fig. 4); 11,108,372].
Regarding claim 1, Mao et al discloses an electronic device comprising a first branch (INP, 302, 304, OUT) comprising a first capacitor (318), a second branch (INN, 302, 304, 310) comprising a second capacitor (320), an impedance matching circuit (312, 316, 314, 324, 322, 326, 328, 306, 308) comprising a programmable primary inductor circuit (312, 316, 314, 324, 326) coupled to the first branch (INP, 302, 304, OUT) and the second branch (INN, 302, 304, 310) and wherein the programmable primary inductor circuit (312, 316, 314, 324, 326) comprising a fixed inductor (326) and a switching circuit (316, 324) coupled to the fixed inductor (326) and the switching circuit (316, 324) comprising a plurality of switches, and a switchable inductor (312, 314) coupled to the switching circuit (316, 324), and a secondary inductor (328).
Regarding claim 2, wherein the switchable inductor (314) is configured to couple to the fixed inductor (326) via the switching circuit (316).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 7 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over [Mao et al (Fig. 4); 11,108,372] in view of [Hamparian (Fig. 1); 8,335,542].
Mao et al discloses all the limitations in claim 7 except for that the further comprising a digital to analog converter coupled to the first branch and second branch and wherein the digital to analog converter configured to receive outgoing data. Hamparian discloses an amplifier circuit comprising a digital to analog converter (124a, 124b) coupled to the first branch (121a) and second branch (121b) and wherein the digital to analog converter (124a, 124b) configured to receive outgoing data (S1, S2). It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made would have found it obvious to have employed the digital to analog converter at the input terminals of the first branch and second branch of Mao et al (Fig. 4), such as taught by Hamparian (Fig. 1) in order to provide the advantageous benefit of improving the transmission signals of the amplifier circuit.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-6 and 8 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.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 9-20 are allowed.
Conclusion
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/HENRY CHOE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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