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 § 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.
Claims 1-6 and 8 are 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.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "the first transistor" in line 8 and “the second transistor” in line 11. There is insufficient antecedent basis for these limitations in the claim.
With respect to claim 2, it cannot be determined if the recitation of “a first transistor” in line 2 refers to the same or a different transistor as the recitation of “the first transistor” in claim 1. Furthermore, it cannot be determined if the recitation of “a second transistor” in line 3 references to the same or a different as the recitation of “the second transistor” in claim 1.
Claims 2-6 and 8 are rejected for the same reasons as claim 1.
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.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Krishnan et al. (USPAPN 2021/0349490).
With respect to claim 1, as far as can be understood, Krishnan et al. discloses, in Fig. 1, an apparatus (Fig. 1), comprising:
a bandgap reference circuit (Fig. 1) having a reference voltage output (Vbg) and including:
an operational amplifier (OP AMP) (OP1) having a first input (non-inverting terminal), a second input (inverting terminal), and an output (123), the output coupled to the reference voltage output (Vbg);
a first diode device (M1) coupled between the reference voltage output (Vbg) and the first input (non-inverting terminal via R1);
a resistor (R3) coupled to a ground terminal (ground);
a first current source coupled between the first input and the resistor (M2) and configurable to provide a first current to the first transistor (current generated by M2);
a second diode device coupled between the second input and the resistor (M4); and
a second current source coupled between the reference voltage output and the second input (M3) and configurable to provide a second current to the second transistor (current generated by M3).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-3, 5-6 and 8 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claims 9, 11-13 and 21 are allowed.
Claims 14 and 17-20 are allowed.
Conclusion
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/THOMAS J. HILTUNEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2849