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 .
35 USC 102 Rejections
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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 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yaghmai et al 2009/0258538.
Regarding claim 1, Yaghmai et al (Figure 2G) discloses an electric-wire-equipped connection member comprising: an electric wire comprising a center conductor 255, an insulating layer (unnumbered) covering the center conductor, and a shield layer 280 made of metal and covering the insulating layer; and an insulating substrate 200 comprising a first surface and a second surface and having a through hole which has openings in the first surface and the second surface and in which a portion of the electric wire where the shield layer is exposed is inserted, wherein the center conductor is exposed from the first surface of the insulating substrate, wherein the insulating substrate comprises a metal plating layer 220s formed continuously on an inner peripheral surface of the through hole and at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and wherein the shield layer is electrically connected to the metal plating layer.
Regarding claim 2, Yaghmai et al discloses the shield layer 280 is fixed to the insulating substrate 200 in the through hole.
Claims Defining Over Prior Art
Claims 3-6 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: none of the prior art discloses or teaches an electric circuit board, wherein the electric circuit board comprises a signal circuit pattern and a ground circuit pattern, and wherein the center conductor is connected to the signal circuit pattern, and the metal 25 plating layer is connected to the ground circuit pattern; nor the insulating substrate has an optical connection through hole that is different from the through hole, and 5 wherein the optical connection through hole is configured to allow an optical fiber to be inserted therein; in combination with the rest of the subject matter of the independent claim.
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/GARY F PAUMEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2834