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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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Li (US 2020/0133032).
Li discloses, in figure 1, a temple side wing structure (1), which mainly comprises a spectacle frame (2) and side shields (31), wherein the spectacle frame has lenses (figure 5) arranged thereon, corresponding temples pivoted on both sides of the spectacle frame (2), and embedding grooves (12) respectively recessed to form each temple (1) close to the lower end of the lens, wherein each of the embedding grooves (12) has an embedding hole portion (rear bottom portion) located at the rear, wherein each of the embedding grooves has a hooking hole portion (top portion) connected with the embedding hole portion at the front thereof (bottom portion), wherein each side shield (31) has an embedding section protruding from the upper end thereof, corresponding to the embedding groove (12) at the lower end of each of the temples, wherein the embedding section (31) has an embedding portion (bottom portion) corresponding to the embedding hole portion (bottom portion) for positioning and interlocking, wherein the front end of the embedding section has a hooking portion (front hooking portion 37) connected with the front embedding portion (see below figure), wherein the hooking portion (37) is used to hook and combine with the hooking hole portion (via a front protrusion 14) for positioning.
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Allowable Subject Matter
1. Claims 2 and 3 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.
2. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: (claim 2) wherein the embedding hole portion is diagonally concave; (claim 3) wherein an inclined guide end surface is formed on the front edge of the hooking portion.
Conclusion
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/TUYEN TRA/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2872
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