DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
Claims 1-2 objected to because of the following informalities: “a total mass”, “a total content” should be “the total mass”, “the total content” because of inherent antecedent basis. Appropriate correction is required.
Claim 5 objected to because of the following informalities: formula (I) should be H2C=CR1…. Appropriate correction is required.
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) 1-2, 4, 6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Araki (WO2022070517).
In setting forth this rejection a machine translation of WO2022070517 has been relied upon and all citations to paragraph numbers in the discussion below are with respect to the machine translation.
Araki teaches a radiation curable ink jet composition comprising 65 wt% of GTA glycerin triacrylate, and an initiator TPO-L (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) ethoxyphenylphosphine oxide (example 11).
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.
The factual inquiries set forth in Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 148 USPQ 459 (1966), that are applied for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claim 3, 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Araki (WO2022070517).
Araki teaches the radical polymerizable monomer may be any of a monofunctional a bifunctional monomer, and a trifunctional or higher functional monomer [0045]. The preferred trifunctional monomer can be glycerin triacrylate and preferred monofunctional monomer can be isobornyl acrylate [0179]. The bifunctional monomer can be 2-(2-vinyloxyethoxy)ethyl (meth)acrylate [0060, 0076].
Araki does not expressly name a single embodiment having the claimed composition. However, each of the components of the composition is described in the reference. Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the present invention to have made any of the compositions suggested by the reference, including the claimed composition, thereby arriving at the presently claimed invention.
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Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1763