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 Objections
1. Claim 1 is objected to because of the following informalities:
Claim 1, line 11 “and,” changes to “and”.
Appropriate correction is required.
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
2. Claims 1-3, 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(2) as being anticipated by Morrison et al (USPN 2024/0092289).
Regarding claim 1, Morrison discloses an electrical switching device (200, see figure 2) comprising:
a plurality of electrical loads (a plurality of loads 204, see par. 0018);
an electrical energy source (a power source 202) for supplying electrical energy to said plurality of electrical loads (204);
a bus line (a bus line 212) for conducting said electrical energy from said electrical energy source to said plurality of electrical loads (204);
said plurality of electrical loads (204) being connected to said bus line (212);
a group of a plurality of electronic fuses (a group of e-fuses 214, see par. 0019) electrically arranged between said electrical energy source (202) and said plurality of electrical loads (204);
said plurality of electronic fuses being separate from each other and being distributed in said electrical switching device; and
a control unit (a control circuit 216) being arranged in said bus line and being configured to address said plurality of electronic fuses (214) in said group via said bus line (see par. 0021, 0022, 0023).
Regarding claim 2, Morrison discloses wherein, when addressing said group of said plurality of electronic fuses (the group of e-Fuses 214 assigned shown in table 1, see figure 2, and par. 0022), a position of the electronic fuse (such as a position of the e-fuse 214a assigned in a cluster C1) to be addressed from the group (214) relative to the other electronic fuses (214b-214f) from said group in said electrical switching device is determined and then an address is assigned to said electronic fuse to be addressed (see par. 0022, 0023).
Regarding claim 3, Morrison discloses wherein said address is assigned by said control unit (the controller 216).
Regarding claim 17, Morrison discloses wherein said plurality of electrical loads (204) are each connected to said bus line (212) via stub lines (such as branching lines 212a-212f), and the electronic fuses (214a-214f) in said group of a plurality of electronic fuses are arranged in said stub lines (212a-212f).
Allowable Subject Matter
3. Claims 4-16, 18-21 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.
Conclusion
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/DANNY NGUYEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2838