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 .
Election/Restrictions
The 12/18/2025 "Reply" elects without traverse and identifies claims 2-7, 29, and 30 as being drawn to Species A. Accordingly, Examiner has withdrawn claims 8-13 and 19-24 from further consideration as being drawn to a non-elected invention. See, for example, 37 CFR § 1.142(b).
The 10/21/2025 restriction requirement is proper, is maintained, and is hereby made final.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of the invention specified in the claims. Therefore, the “the integrated antenna comprises one or more exposed vias configured as radiating components” of claim 5 in combination with the features of claims 1 and 3 must be shown or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s). No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) 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. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. 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.
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 2-4, 6-7, 29, and 30 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Choudhury (US Pub. No. 2009/0231225).
Regarding claim 2, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses a package, comprising: a chiplet (360, paragraph [0025]) on a first carrier (240, paragraph [0018]) having a dielectric (paragraph [0019]) having two parallel sides and an antenna feed port (e.g. left side 355, paragraph [0026]) formed on a first (top) of the two parallel sides of the dielectric of the first carrier; and an antenna (e.g. left side 210, paragraph [0018]) on a second carrier (320/330) having two parallel sides and a radio frequency feed port (e.g. left side 355) formed on a first (bottom) of the two parallel sides of the second carrier and the antenna formed on a second side (top) of the two parallel sides, the first sides facing each other and the antenna feed port coupled to the radio frequency feed port forming a radio frequency signal interface; wherein at least one of the antenna feed port or the radio frequency feed port comprises a ball grid array (bumps 355, see FIG. 4).
Regarding claim 3, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the first carrier comprises an integrated antenna (350, paragraph [0024]) that is formed on or integrated in an edge of the first carrier, wherein the integrated antenna is coupled to the chiplet (paragraph [0026]).
Regarding claim 4, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the integrated antenna is configured as an end-fire antenna (paragraph [0024]).
Regarding claim 6, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the integrated antenna is configured as at least one of a Yagi-antenna or Yagi-Uda antenna (paragraph [0024]).
Regarding claim 7, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the second carrier comprises at least a first sub-carrier (320) and a second sub-carrier (330), each of the first sub-carrier and the second sub-carrier comprising at least one antenna (the first sub-carrier is in direct contact with antenna 210, the second sub-carrier is in direct contact with antenna 350).
Regarding claim 29, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the first carrier comprises a further antenna feed port (e.g. on the right side) and the second carrier comprises a further radio frequency feed port (e.g. 355 on the right side) formed on the first side of the second carrier and a further antenna (e.g. 210 on the right side) formed on a second side of the second carrier; wherein a further radio frequency signal interface comprises the further antenna feed port (e.g. 355 on the right side) coupled to the further radio frequency feed port; and wherein the further antenna has a different main radio frequency propagation direction (e.g. to the right, see FIG. 6) than the antenna.
Regarding claim 30, in FIGs. 1-6, Choudhury discloses that the antennas are connected through different line feeds with the antenna feed ports, and the different line feeds are embedded in the first carrier (see FIG. 4).
Claim 2 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Wolter (US Pub. No. 2016/0240492).
Regarding claim 2, in FIG. 5, Wolter discloses a package, comprising: a chiplet (516, paragraph [0045]) on a first carrier (510/518, paragraph [0046]) having a dielectric (518) having two parallel sides and an antenna feed port (520/532) formed on a first (top) of the two parallel sides of the dielectric of the first carrier; and an antenna (526, paragraph [0045]) on a second carrier (524) having two parallel sides and a radio frequency feed port (522) formed on a first (bottom) of the two parallel sides of the second carrier and the antenna formed on a second side (top) of the two parallel sides, the first sides facing each other and the antenna feed port coupled to the radio frequency feed port forming a radio frequency signal interface; wherein at least one of the antenna feed port or the radio frequency feed port comprises a ball grid array (solder ball array 550 and associated pads, paragraph [0046]).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 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 5 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Choudhury (US Pub. No. 2009/0231225) in view of Naqvi (“Via-Monopole Based Quasi Yagi-Uda Antenna for W-band Applications using Through Glass Silicon Via (TGSV) Technology,” provided by Applicant in the 7/11/2025 IDS).
Regarding claim 5, Choudhury discloses that the integrated antenna is a quasi-Yagi-Uda antenna (paragraph [0024]).
Choudhury appears not to explicitly disclose that the quasi-Yagi-Uda antenna comprises one or more exposed (interpreted as exposed to other materials/environment) vias configured as radiating components.
The art however well recognized one or more exposed vias configured as radiating components to be suitable for use as a quasi-Yagi-Uda antenna configuration. See, for example, Naqvi, abstract and FIG. 1.
According to well-established patent law precedents (see, for example, M.P.E.P. § 2144.07), therefore, it 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 to have formed the Choudhury disclosed quasi-Yagi-Uda antenna from one or more exposed (interpreted as exposed to other materials/environment) vias configured as radiating components for its recognized suitability as a quasi-Yagi-Uda antenna configuration.
Conclusion
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/TUCKER J WRIGHT/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2891