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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to as failing to comply with 37 CFR 1.84(p)(5) because they include the following reference character(s) not mentioned in the description:
Reference labels 510 and 515 as shown in Figure 9 are not sufficiently described.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d), or amendment to the specification to add the reference character(s) in the description in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(b) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Specification
The disclosure is objected to because of the following informalities:
Reference labels 510 and 515 (Figure 9) are not defined or properly mentioned within the specification.
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
Claim 8 is 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.
As per Claim 8, Line 1, “metal 1 layer” is unclear to one of ordinary skill in the art what the “metal 1 layer” is pertaining to and specifically, what the “1” in the “metal 1 layer” is intended to convey, thereby leaving the boundaries of the claim unclear.
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
Claims 1-6 and 19-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kamgaing (US10998879).
As per Claim 1:
Kamgaing discloses in Figure 3:
An electronic device (“microelectronic package”, 301) comprising one or more heat generating circuit elements (“active circuitry”, 339 and “heat spreader”, 307) thermally coupled to the one or more heat generating circuit elements to increase dissipation of heat from the electronic device (337 inherently increases dissipation of heat since the passive element 361 is coupled with the 339 [Col. 9, Lines 45-47], and the heat spreader 307 draws thermal energy from the RF FEM 300 [Col. 9, Lines 32-35], and thereby 337 is inherently assisting with this process).
As per Claims 2-6 and 19-20:
Kamgaing discloses in Figure 3:
An electronics module (as per claim 20, “antenna” 1822 and the “electrical device”, 1800) including the electronic device (“microelectronic package”, 301) and the one or more heat generating circuit elements (“active circuitry”, 339 and “heat spreader”, 307) including one or more acoustic wave resonators which are surface or bulk acoustic wave resonators (as per claims 2-4, “AWR”, the RF FEM that includes one or more acoustic wave resonators (AWRs), [Col. 3, Lines 18-21] and the AWR may be a BAW or SAW, [Col. 4, Lines 46-50]) and may form a multiplexer (as per claim 5, the AWR may be part of a multiplexer, [Col. 4, Lines 50-52]) and the electronic device (301) including multiple no-contact vias (as per claim 19, “thermal interconnects”, 337 may be blind vias [Col. 9, Lines 37-39] and are not in contact with 339 or 307, and there is 3 thermal interconnects, as is evident by Figure 3) and the no-contact via has a lower end terminating on a first side of a layer of an electrically insulting material and is in thermal communication with the heat generating elements through the insulting material, but not through a metal layer below the no-contact via (as per claim 6, 337 is within the package substrate 329 and is thermally coupled to 339 and 307 through a combination of 361 and 300, not any metal layer below 337, as is evident by Figure 3).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 7 and 9-18 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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/ABIGAIL AMIR YALDO/ Examiner, Art Unit 2843
/ANDREA LINDGREN BALTZELL/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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