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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 10 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Okabe et al (US 2022/0264748) in view of Nishida et al (US 2020/0388553).
Re claim 10, Okabe et al disclose a module (10) comprising:
a substrate (20) having a first surface (201);
a first component (41) mounted on the first surface;
a sealing resin (51) sealing the first component at least from a lateral side; and
a shield film (70) comprising metal (conductive) [0029], the shield film covering the first component and the sealing resin,
wherein the first component has an exposed surface (412) exposed through the sealing resin on a side opposite to the substrate,
the shield film has a first contact portion in contact with the exposed surface (Fig 1), and the exposed surface is roughened [0034], but does not disclose the exposed surface is roughened by wet blasting.
Nishida et al teach the use of exposed surface is roughened by wet blasting [0042]. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to perform the wet blasting treatment on the exposed surface of Okabe et al to achieve specific average surface roughness.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9, 11-20 are allowed.
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 10 have been considered but are moot.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/HUNG V NGO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2841