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 .
Claim Objections
Claims 1-6 are objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 1, Line 7, “and being comprising” is expected to read “and comprising”.
Claim 1, Lines 2 & 4, “centred” is expected to read “centered”.
By virtue of their dependency on claim 1, claims 2-6 are also objected to.
Claim 2, Line 5, “these two frequency bands” is expected to “said first and second frequency bands”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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 applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-6 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 recites the limitation "the first resonator" in line 18 and “the last resonator” in line 20. There is insufficient antecedent basis for these limitations in the claim. For examination purposes, examiner has interpreted “the first resonator” to read “a first resonator” and “the last resonator” to read “a last resonator”.
By virtue of their dependency on claim 1, claims 2-6 are also rejected.
Claim 4 recites the limitation "the filter" in line 4. The limitation as written is unclear. It is unclear if the limitation is referring to the dual-band analogue filter or introducing an additional filter. For examination purposes, examiner has interpreted “the filter” to read “the dual-band analogue filter”.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-6 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 1 would be allowed because Okada et al. (US 6,470,173 B1) in view of Billaud (US 2019/0391228 A1) does not disclose nor render obvious the dual-band analogue filter configured to be passing for IFF signals received in a first frequency band (fQoi-fQo2) centered on the 1030 MHz frequency and ADS-B signals received in a second frequency band (fAoi-fAo2) centered on the 1090 MHz frequency, and to reject signals received outside the first frequency band and the second frequency band, in particular at least one frequency band (fQ2 - fA1) between the first and the second frequency band, and the superimposed layering structure defined by the first layer, second layer, third layer, and fourth layer with the respective resonators disposed on the third layer and fourth layers.
Conclusion
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/TYLER J PERENY/ Examiner, Art Unit 2842