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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group IV (claims 25-33 and 43) in the reply filed on 5-27-25 is acknowledged.
Claims 1-24 and 34-42 withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to nonelected inventions, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 5-27-25.
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) 25, 26, 32, and 33 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Ludwig (US 5,551,725). Ludwig (Fig 1) discloses a gas generator device, comprising: a heat-generating composition (24); a gas-generating composition (20) comprising an oxalate salt (c. 7, l. 35; “ammonium oxalate”); and at least one separator (30), wherein the heat-generating composition is proximate to a first surface of the at least one separator and the gas-generating composition is proximate to a second surface of the at least one separator. Igniter (22).
Claim(s) 25, 26, 29, 32, 33, and 43 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by (GB 5013872 A), hereinafter (“GB”). GB (Fig 1) discloses a gas generator device, comprising: a heat-generating composition (7); a gas-generating composition (9) comprising an oxalate salt (see pg 2, l. 60-70); and at least one separator (5), wherein the heat-generating composition is proximate to a first surface of the at least one separator and the gas-generating composition is proximate to a second surface of the at least one separator. (See pg 2, l. 115-120 regarding heat generating composition being thermite).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 27, 28, 30, and 31 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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/REGINALD S TILLMAN, JR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3641