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 .
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed in present Application filed on September 19, 2024.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements filed August 11, 2024 and September 09,2024 have been submitted for consideration by the Office. It has been placed in the application file and the information referred to therein has been considered.
Applicants must continue to submit prior art references throughout the patent application process. A supplemental IDS must be submitted if prior art is discovered through a foreign patent application or an International Patent Search, or a related application before a prosecution closes.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant's election of Group encomssing claims 1-2 without traverse in the reply filed on December 18, 2025 is acknowledged.
Claims 3-5 are withdrawn from further consideration as being drawn to a nonelected subject matter or groups.
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-AlA) 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 Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 102 which forms the basis for all rejections set forth 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.
(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.
Claims 1-2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1)/(a)(2) (whichever apply) as being anticipated by Terakawa et al. (US5053582, herein referred to as Terakawa) or Miller et al. (US5593756, herein referred to as Miller)
Rejection of claim 1, Terakawa or Miller discloses a shielding tape (figure 1 of Terakawa or figure 1 of Miller) comprising:
a tape material having an adhesive surface (An adhesive material is provided to a surface of an offset portion 5 of the insulative member 3 which is offset from the conductive member 2 on the side facing the conductive member 2 in Terakawa; or strip shaped adhesive 16 or 20 having adhesive surface in miller) and
a thin metal film ( A mesh made of a metal wire or a metal tape made of copper or the like may be used as a material for the conductive member 2 in Terakawa; or Miller discloses 24 is metal substrate) adhering to the adhesive surface (see figure 1 of Terakawa ,and specification states the conductive member 2 is partially fixed to the insulative member 3 by an adhesive or a heat seal. An adhesive material is provided to a surface of an offset portion 5 of the insulative member 3 which is offset from the conductive member 2 on the side facing the conductive member 2; or adhesive surface of adhesive 16 or 20 attached to 24 in miller),
wherein the thin metal film adheres to the adhesive surface while leaving a region where the adhesive surface is exposed on at least one end portion of the tape material in a width direction (see one side or end of 5 exposed from conductive member 2 in width direction in Terakawa; or one side or edge of 16 or 20 exposed from metal substrate in width direction in Miller ).
Rejection of claim 2, Terakawa or Miller discloses the shielding tape according to claim 1, wherein the thin metal film adheres to the adhesive surface while leaving a region where the adhesive surface is exposed on both ends of the tape material in a longitudinal direction (see both ends of 5 exposed from conductive member 2 in length direction in Terakawa; or both ends of 16 or 20 exposed from metal substrate in length direction in Miller ).
Pertinent Prior Arts
The prior arts made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Please refer to the enclosed PTO-892 form for the citation of pertinent arts in the present case, all of which disclose various shielding tapes.
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/PARESH PAGHADAL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2847