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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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-3 and 10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by [Otsuki et al (Fig. 3); 2016/0204743].
Regarding claim 1, Otsuki et al discloses an amplifier circuit comprising a carrier circuit (5, 6) comprising at least one carrier amplifier (5), a peak circuit (10, 11) comprising at least one peak amplifier (10), a carrier control circuit (23) which is configured to control a gate voltage of a given carrier amplifier (5) of the carrier circuit (5, 6), and a carrier output circuit (22) which is connected to the carrier amplifier (5) of the carrier circuit (5, 6) at an output side of the carrier circuit (5, 6) and that is configured to supply a carrier control signal (output signal of 22) to the carrier control circuit (23) and wherein the carrier control signal (output signal of 22) is configured to control the gate voltage of the given carrier amplifier (5).
Regarding claim 2, wherein the carrier output circuit (22) is configured to output the carrier control signal (output signal of 22) based on a gate current of the carrier amplifier (5) at the output side of the carrier circuit (5, 6), and wherein the carrier control circuit (23) is configured to control the gate voltage of the given carrier amplifier (5) based on the carrier control signal (output signal of 22).
Regarding claim 3, wherein the carrier control circuit (23) is configured to decrease a bias supplied to a gate of the given carrier amplifier (5) based on the carrier control signal (output signal of 22).
Regarding claim 10, Otsuki et al further comprising a phase shifter (7) which is configured to vary a phase of a signal output (output signal of 6) from the carrier circuit (5, 6), and a combiner (12) configured to combine the signal output (output signal of 6) from the carrier circuit (5, 6) with a signal (output signal of 11) from the peak circuit (10, 11) and to output a combined signal (the signal going out of the node 12) and the signal output (output signal of 6) from the carrier circuit (5, 6) having a phase that is varied by the phase shifter (7) and wherein the carrier output circuit (22) is configured to supply the carrier control signal (output signal of 22) to the carrier control circuit (23) based on a frequency (frequency of the signal going out of the node 12) of the combined signal (the signal going out of the node 12).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 4-9 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.
Conclusion
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/HENRY CHOE/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2843
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