DETAILED ACTION
This Office action responds to the Applicant’s amendments and arguments filed on 06/24/2026.
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 . In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for a 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.
Amendment Status
The present Office action is made with all previously suggested amendments being fully considered. Accordingly, pending in this Office action are claims 1-7, 10, 13-16, and 18, and 20-23. Claims 8-9 are withdrawn by the Applicant. Claims 11-12, 17, 19, and 24-33 are cancelled by the Applicant.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(d):
Subject to the following paragraph, a claim in dependent form shall contain a reference to a claim previously set forth and then specify a further limitation of the subject matter claimed. A multiple dependent claim shall not serve as a basis for any other multiple dependent claims. A multiple dependent claim shall be construed to incorporate by reference all the limitations of the particular claim in relation to which it is being considered.
Claim 22 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(d) as being incomplete.
Claim 22 is incomplete because the claim on which it depends from is a claim that has been cancelled (cancelled claim 19). Applicant is required to either cancel or amend claim 22 in order to place it in proper dependent form, or to rewrite the claim 22 in independent form.
See MPEP § 608.01(n)V where it is stated that if the base claim has been cancelled, a claim that is directly or indirectly dependent thereon should be rejected as incomplete.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-10, 13-16, and 18, 20-21, and 23 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art of record neither anticipates nor renders obvious a semiconductor package comprising a unit film package that includes a semiconductor chip disposed on a mounting region on the inner region, pads on connection regions disposed on opposite sides in the longitudinal direction from the mounting region, the pad being arranged in the width direction, and connection lines through which the semiconductor chip and the pads are connected to each other on the base film, as it is recited in claims 1 and 13.
Also, the following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: The prior art of record neither anticipates nor renders obvious a semiconductor package comprising a unit film package disposed on the inner region of the base film and defined by a cut line, a first solder resist layer disposed on the base film, the first solder resist layer covering the unit film package inside the cut line; a second solder resist layer covering the first dummy pattern on the first peripheral region of the base film; and a third solder resist layer covering the second dummy pattern on the second peripheral region of the base film, wherein the second solder resist layer and the third solder resist layer are connected to each other through an extension part that extends in the width direction, and wherein the unit film package includes a mounting region disposed on the inner region, and connection regions disposed on opposite ends in the longitudinal direction from the mounting region as it is recited in claim 23.
Conclusion
This action is made final. The Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire three months from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within two months of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the three-month shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than six months from the date of this final action.
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/TIBERIU DAN ONUTA/Examiner, Art Unit 2814
/WAEL M FAHMY/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2814
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