DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Species 2 in the reply filed on 10/15/2025 is acknowledged.
Claim 1-6 and 13-18 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b), as being drawn to a nonelected species 1 and species 3, there being no allowable generic or linking claim.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 7-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 7 recites the limitation "the first surface" in line 2 and “the second surface” in line 10. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 8-12 depend on claim 7.
To further prosecution examiner wants to point out closest prior art and suggest applicant to contact examiner as the prior art seems to teach the claim invention. Bolognia US PG-Pub 2014/0001580 Fig. 4B and Braband US PG-Pub 2024/0040324 Fig. 12.
Conclusion
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