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 .
Claims 1, 9 and 17 are the broadest independent claims I ever seen. Please amend these claims in reasonable way. Thank you.
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, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 17 and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by [Trang et al (Fig. 3A); 11,417,746].
Regarding claims 1, 9 and 17, Trang et al discloses an amplifier circuit comprising a field effect transistor (200) comprising a contact configuration (210, 215, 205) with interleaved contact fingers including gate contact fingers (210) having electrically connected gate contact finger sections (210) being distributed in the transistor area (105, 115) and being provided between a source contact finger (205) and a drain contact finger (215) of the contact configuration (210, 215, 205).
Regarding claims 5 and 13, wherein the field effect transistor (200) can be a Gallium Nitride transistor which is well known in the amplifier art.
Regarding claims 6 and 14, wherein the field effect transistor (200) can be a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor which is well known in the amplifier art.
Regarding claim 18, Trang et al further inherently comprises an antenna since the Fig. 3A of Trang et al would not work without the antenna which is well known in the amplifier art.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-4, 7, 8, 10-12, 15, 16, 19 and 20 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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