DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-4 are currently pending in the instant application. Claim 1 is rejected. Claims 2-4 are withdrawn from consideration as being for non-elected subject matter.
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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group I and the species:
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in the reply filed on 25 February 2025 has been previously acknowledged.
According to MPEP 803.02, the examiner has previously determined whether the elected species is allowable. Applicants’ elected species appears allowable. As applicant has amended claim 1 to overcome the 35 USC 102(a)(1) rejection as being anticipated by Sarkar et al. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 105, 1793-1801 (2007), the examiner has now extended the search and examination according to MPEP 803.02 to the compound
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which is not allowable.
Claim 1 has been examined to the extent that it is readable on the elected embodiment, the elected species and the above mentioned compound.
Response to Amendment and Remarks
Applicant's amendment and remarks filed 8 July 2026 have been fully considered and entered into the instant application. Applicant’s amendment to delete the compound
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has overcome the 35 USC 102(a)(1) rejection as being anticipated by Sarkar et al. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 105, 1793-1801 (2007).
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(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Registry Number 1372048-27-5.
Registry Number 1372048-27-5 is
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. This compound corresponds to and anticipates the tenth listed compound of claim 1 which is formula
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. Therefore, claim 1 is anticipated.
Registry number 1372048-27-5 is available as prior art as of 01 May 2012 the date it was indexed into the CAplus database.
See MPEP 2128: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AS PRIOR ART Status as a "Printed Publication" An electronic publication, including an on-line database or Internet publication, is considered to be a “printed publication” within the meaning of 35 U.S.C. 102(a) and (b) provided the publication was accessible to persons concerned with the art to which the document relates. See In re Wyer, 655 F.2d 221, 227, 210 USPQ 790, 795 (CCPA 1981) Since this date represents the date that each compound entered the CAPlus database on STN, this represents the date that each compound was made accessible to the public.
The aforementioned compound anticipates the instantly claimed compounds: It is further noted that for the purposes of determining if a reference is a “printed publication” for the purposes of 102(b), MPEP 2128 states the following:
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where “prior art disclosures…on an on-line database are considered to be publicly available as of the date the item was publicly posted.” Since each of the database entries above lists the date that each compound was entered into the on-line database, the compounds were made publicly available as of that date in each citation, and the claims are anticipated.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Zhang et al. Zhang et al. discloses the compound III on page 404:
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which corresponds to
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. This compound corresponds to and anticipates the tenth listed compound of claim 1 which is formula
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. Therefore, claim 1 is anticipated.
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).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any nonprovisional extension fee (37 CFR 1.17(a)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/REBECCA L ANDERSON/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1626 ____________________ 13 September 2026
Rebecca Anderson
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 1626, Group 1620
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