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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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Ortiz et al. (US 2015/0280688).
With respect to claim 1, Ortiz et al. discloses an electronic device (Fig 5) comprising: an element (item 120); a first substrate (item 505) including a first surface having a first electrode (item 501) coupled to the element and a second electrode (item 502) coupled to the element and placed in a position different from that of the first electrode (Fig 5 and paragraph 39); and a second substrate (item 535) having a second surface and a third surface and placed with the second surface facing the first surface (Fig 5), wherein the second substrate has a first opening (item 537) penetrating from the second surface to the third surface in a position corresponding to the first electrode (Fig 5), and a second opening (item 538) penetrating from the second surface to the third surface in a position corresponding to the second electrode (Fig 5), a first through electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode is provided in the first opening (Fig 5), a second through electrode electrically coupled to the second electrode is provided in the second opening (Fig 5), in a plan view of the third surface, an area of the first through electrode is larger than an area of the first opening (Fig 5, wherein the portion of the through electrode at the surface of the first substrate is larger than the opening of the through hole), and in the plan view of the third surface, an area of the second through electrode is larger than an area of the second opening (Fig 5, wherein the portion of the through electrode at the surface of the first substrate is larger than the opening of the through hole).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-6 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.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the prior art does not disclose or suggest “wherein dimples are formed, in the third surface, in a region between the first opening and the second opening” in combination with the remaining elements of claim 2.
Conclusion
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/DEREK J ROSENAU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2837
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