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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 .
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(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 20200240183 to Bacon.
Regarding claim 1, Bacon discloses:
A door handle assembly (fig 10), comprising: a single lock actuator (170) configured to actuate between an unlocked position (fig 11) and a locked position (fig 12), wherein the single lock actuator is mechanically connected to a single key cylinder (100) and no additional key cylinders of the door handle assembly; and one or more linkage bars (168) in mechanical communication with and extending from the single lock actuator, the one or more linkage bars comprising: a first engagement member (168) configured to engage with a handle locking bolt (102) such that actuation of the single lock actuator causes actuation of the handle locking bolt between an unlocked position (fig 11) and a locked position (fig 12), wherein, when in the locked position, the handle locking bolt is configured to prevent rotation of a handle (82) of the door handle assembly (in fig 12, 82 cannot rotated when 92 is in the locked position of fig 12); and a second engagement member (178) configured to engage with a deadbolt (56) such that actuation of the single lock actuator causes actuation of the deadbolt between an unlocked position (fig 20) and a locked position (when 56 is in 48), wherein, when in the locked position, the deadbolt is configured to engage with a mortice (48) to prevent opening of a door to which the door handle assembly is affixed.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 14-20 is allowed.
Claims 2-13 and 21 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.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
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/Y.S./Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3675
/CHRISTINE M MILLS/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3675
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