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 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, 8, 19-21 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.
► With respect to claim 1,
Lines 4-6, “the capacitor comprising a non-linear polar dielectric material having form ABC, wherein A and B are two different cations and O is Oxygen or Nitrogen, wherein B is combined with a dopant” renders the claim indefinite. It is not clear how “O is Oxygen or Nitrogen” while ” a non-linear polar dielectric material having form ABC” . *** Suggestion: change “O” to “C”
►` With respect to claim 4,
Lines 1-2, “wherein the first conductive layer comprises a first refractory metal, nitrides of the first refractory metal, or platinum, iridium, or palladium…” should be changed to “ wherein the first conductive layer comprises a first refractory metal, nitrides of the first refractory metal, platinum, iridium, or palladium” for a better claimed language.
► With respect to claim 8,
Lines 1-2, “wherein the first conductive layer comprises a first refractory metal, nitrides of the first refractory metal, or platinum, iridium, or palladium” should be changed to “wherein the first conductive layer comprises a first refractory metal, nitrides of the first refractory metal, platinum, iridium, or palladium” for a better claimed language.
► With respect to claim 19,
Claim 19 further recites “further comprising a third transistor adjacent to the first transistor, wherein a first terminal of the third transistor is coupled with a second terminal of the first transistor by a conductive structure, and wherein the conductive structure is vertically between the plate electrode and the first transistor” but does not cite how such claimed elements (a third transistor, a first terminal of the third transistor is coupled with a second terminal of the first transistor by a conductive structure, the conductive structure is vertically between the plate electrode and the first transistor) are formed as depending on process of claim 18.
► With respect to claim 20,
It is not clear how a signal electrode is formed laterally between the first capacitor and the second capacitor wherein the signal electrode is coupled with the plate electrode as being dependent to process of claim 18.
► With respect to claim 21,
Line 2, it is not clear where a third conductive layer is deposited
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 7, 9-18 are allowed.
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.
Claims 8, 19-21 would be allowable if rewritten 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 and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/THANHHA S PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2812