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 .
Introduction
This is a response to the applicant’s filing filed on 09/16/2023. In virtue of this filing, claims 1-10 are currently presented in the instant application.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Drawings
The drawing submitted on 09/16/2023 has been considered by Examiner and made of record in the application file.
Specification
The specification submitted on 09/16/2023 has been considered by Examiner and made of record in the application file.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because claims recite an embodiment of the applicants' invention directed towards " A storage medium, storing a computer program.....” as recites in claim 10. It is noted, however, the specification (page 15, PAR [0099-00100, pages 16-17, PAR [00106-00107]) provides open-ended examples of storage medium and silent with respect to “A non- transitory storage medium" Thus, under the broadest reasonable interpretation, "Storage medium" considered as a whole would be directed towards non-statutory mediums such as signals/carrier waves. The specification fails to define A storage medium excludes a signals/carrier waves, such as transitory signal as per the USPTO notice signed by David Kapposon 1/26/2010: "The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is obliged to give claims their broadest reasonable interpretation consistent with the specification during proceedings before the USPTO. See In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319(Fed. Cir. 1989) (during patent examination the pending claims must be interpreted as broadly as their terms reasonably allow). The broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim drawn to a storage medium (also called machine readable medium and other such variations) typically covers forms of non-transitory tangible media and transitory propagating signals per se in view of the ordinary and customary meaning of computer readable media, particularly when the specification is silent. See MPEP 2111.01. When the broadest reasonable interpretation of a claim covers a signal per se, the claim must be rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 as covering non-statutory subject matter. See In re Nuijten, 500 F.3d 1346, 1356-57 (Fed. Cir. 2007) (transitory embodiments are not directed to statutory subject matter) and Interim Examination Instructions for Evaluating Subject Matter Eligibility Under 35 U.S.C.j101, Aug. 24,2009; p. 2."
REASONS FOR ALLOWANCE
Claims 1-9 are allowed over the prior art of record.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Leiba (U.S. Patent No.: 9,774,076) teaches a filter, a lamina, and a bare die disposed on the lamina, wherein at least one IC is disposed on the bare die.
Han et al. (U.S. Patent No.: 11,670,599) teaches a filter, a lamina, and a bare die disposed on the lamina, wherein at least one IC is disposed on the bare die.
Lin et al. (U.S. Patent No.: 11,637,051) teaches a filter, a lamina, and a bare die disposed on the lamina, wherein at least one IC is disposed on the bare die.
However, the prior art made of record, alone or in combination, fails to clearly teach or fairly suggest the connection of at least one radio frequency device and the filter are connected on the bare die; the filter is configured to filter a received signal, and the filter comprises at least one capacitor and at least one inductor; the at least one capacitor is disposed on the bare die; and the at least one inductor is disposed on the lamina, and the at least one inductor is connected to the bare die, in combination with other limitations, as specified in the independent claims 1 and 9, and further limitations of their respective dependent claims 2-8.
Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.”
Conclusion
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/TUAN PHAM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2649