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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 .
Response to Amendment
Acknowledgment is made that applicant's Amendment, filed on July 21st, 2006, has been entered.
Upon entrance of the Amendment, claims 1, 4, and 12 were amended, and claims 2-3 were cancelled. Claims 1 and 4-17 are currently pending.
Claim 12 was rejected under 35 U.S.C. l 12(b) as being indefinite. Claim 12 was amended. The rejection of claim12 under 35 U.S.C. § 112(b) have been overcome and are withdrawn.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed July 21st, 2006 with respect to the rejection of claim 13 over reference Sawayama et al. (U.S. Patent No. 6,376,271) have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. The Applicant has argued “Kimura discloses no projecting electrode portion on an opposite second face at all.” The argument is not persuasive because layer 3 is cited to meet the claim “substrate”, and the electrode 5 does extend from the top surface to the bottom surface of layer 3.
Claim Objections
Claim 12 objected to because of the following informalities: please remove the word “as” from the last line.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
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 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Sawayama et al. (U.S. Patent No. 6,376,271).
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Regarding to claim 13, Sawayama teaches a method for manufacturing an interconnection structure comprising:
providing a substrate formed by a first electrically insulating and optically transparent material, the substrate comprising a first face and an opposite second face, the first face defining a plane of the substrate (Fig. 2(b), element 3; column 9, line 52);
arranging, in the substrate, a plurality of through-cavities, passing through the substrate between the first face and the second face of the substrate in parallel to each other, and being spaced apart from each other (Fig. 2(c); column 9, lines 52-54), and
forming, in the through-cavities, a plurality of transparent electrodes, said transparent electrodes passing through the substrate from the first face to the second face of the substrate in parallel to each other, and being electrically insulated from each other by the first electrically insulating and optically transparent material (Fig. 2(e), elements 5; column 9, line 55-57, indium tin oxide (ITO) is transparent electrode (column 1, lines 23-24)).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 4-11, and 16-17 are allowed.
Claims 14-15 are 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. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding to claim 1, the prior art fails to anticipate or render obvious the claimed limitations including “each transparent electrode comprising an internal portion extending through the substrate from the first face to the second face, the first portion and the second portion each having lateral dimensions strictly greater than lateral dimensions of the internal portion and projecting beyond the first face and the second face, respectively, and wherein the transparent electrodes have an optical transmission coefficient greater than 85% for at least one wavelength in a spectral band between 400 nm and 800 nm” in combination with the limitations recited in claim 1.
The statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter was provided in the previous Office Action.
Conclusion
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