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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 5/2/25 is being considered by the examiner.
Election/Restrictions
Claims 1-9, 11, 14-34 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b), as being drawn to a nonelected invention and species, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Applicant timely traversed the restriction (election) requirement in the reply filed on 5/28/26. Applicants’ elected invention II and Species A-I.
Applicant's election with traverse of the species restriction in the reply filed on 5/28/26 is acknowledged. The traversal is on the ground(s) that the grounds for restriction was not met and that there is no undue burden. This is not found persuasive because the grounds argu3ed were properly presented were the different fields of search are shown. With regards to applicants’ argument that there is no burden as applicant provides no evidence of such to overcome the burden shown in the restriction.
The requirement is still deemed proper and is therefore made FINAL.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of pre-AIA 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) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for a patent.
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(s) 25, 28-34, 36-37, and 40-47 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a) as being anticipated by Farias Moguel et al. (U.S. PGPub 2022/0117114).
Regarding claim 10, Farias Moguel teaches a cooling system comprising: a cooling chamber (element 307) configured to house at least a portion of a cooling liquid (element 302) and one or more electronic components (elements 101)arranged along a stacking direction (per fig. 3, elements 101 are aligned in a “stacking direction”) to enable a thermal exchange between the one or more electronic components and the portion of the cooling liquid in the cooling chamber (para. 0014); and a filtration chamber (inside of element 312) communicatively coupled to the cooling chamber and configured to receive the cooling liquid from the cooling chamber via an inlet portion (line to 331 then to 312) of the filtration chamber (per fig. 3), filter at least a portion of the cooling liquid through the filtration chamber to result in a filtered cooling liquid (per para. 0028), and return the filtered cooling liquid in the filtration chamber to the cooling chamber via an outlet portion of the filtration chamber extending along a horizontal direction corresponding to the stacking direction (via the line from 312 to 307, note the “extending along a horizontal direction corresponding to the stacking direction” is extremely broad as the way or exact form of correspondence is very broad as it neither specifies an exact form or distance thus any correspondence reads on such, see annotated figure below).
Regarding claim 12, Farias Moguel teaches the horizontal direction is parallel to the stacking direction (see annotated figure below), and the outlet portion is communicatively coupled to a bottom portion of the cooling chamber (per fig. 3).
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Regarding claim 13, Farias Moguel teaches a cooling medium arranged within the cooling chamber (per fig. 3), wherein the one or more electronic components are cooled through a vaporization of a heated portion of the cooling liquid in the cooling chamber and through a condensation of a vaporized cooling liquid back into a liquid state by the cooling medium (para. 0015).
Conclusion
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/JOEL M ATTEY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3763
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