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. Priority 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. 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 appl icant regards as his invention. Claim s 1-19 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, line 11 recites “the two or more liquids”, line 22 recites “the threshold data”; Claim 11, line 14 recites “the heat output” , there is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. Claims 2-10 and 12-19 are also rejected because they are dependent upon claims 1 and 11. Allowable Subject Matter Claims 1 and 11 would be allowable if rewritten or amended 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. Claim 20 is allowed. The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: allowance of the claims is indicated because none of the prior art of record, alone or in combination, appears to teach, or fairly suggest or render obvious the invention of the claims or recited allowable subject matter in clai m 20. Claim 20 recites a computing system implemented method for digitally controlling a heating element of a liquid lamp comprising: providing liquid data to a liquid lamp heater control processor component of a logic board, wherein the liquid data identifies two or more liquids within a liquid vessel of a liquid lamp; utilizing a first thermistor to obtain upper vessel temperature data representing a temperature at an upper portion of the liquid vessel; utilizing a second thermistor to obtain lower vessel temperature data representing a temperature at a lower portion of the liquid vessel; utilizing a third thermistor to obtain ambient temperature data; providing the upper vessel temperature data, the lower vessel temperature data, and the ambient temperature data to the liquid lamp heater control processor; utilizing the liquid lamp heater control processor to calculate a temperature differential between the upper vessel temperature data and the lower vessel temperature data; adjusting the temperature differential based on the ambient temperature data; and if the adjusted temperature differential is outside of a predetermined threshold associated with the liquid data, sending temperature control data to a heating element of the liquid lamp w hich the closest prior art of record of Finkle (US 8, 2 94 , 389), Finkle (US 7,137720), Goldstein (US 6,746,131), Unger (US 6,681,508), Wu (US 2003/0202340) and Zale (US 6,604,835) f ails to disclose or render obvious . 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