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 .
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.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Group I in the reply filed on 03 December 2025 is acknowledged.
Claims 4 and 5 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to nonelected inventions, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 03 December 2025.
Information Disclosure Statement
Reference #11 in the information disclosure statement filed 03 April 2024 has been lined through because fails to comply with 37 CFR 1.98(a)(2), which requires a legible copy of each cited foreign patent document listed, since no copy of the reference could be found in the file.
Specification
The lengthy specification has not been checked to the extent necessary to determine the presence of all possible minor errors. Applicant’s cooperation is requested in correcting any errors of which applicant may become aware in the specification.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
Claims 1 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Pagano (US 5,962,565).
Pagano is directed to a coating composition used to provide protection to stacked glass sheets comprising a water-soluble organic acid dispersed in a matrix of water soluble polymer (column 2, lines 41-50). The preferred water-soluble polymer is polyethylene oxide (column 3, lines 12-15).
A glass sheet reads on the "glass plate for obtaining the glass piece" of the claims.
Claims 1 and 3 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Brady et al. (US 2009/0258187).
Brady is directed to a protective coating that can be applied to a glass surface to protect it during transportation (paragraph 0002). The coating material comprises acrylic or methacrylate that are cured on a glass sheet to form the protective coating (paragraph 0014). The coating is cured using heat (Table 2). The coating protects the glass from the adhesion of chips and other contaminants that the glass may come into contact with during storage or shipment (paragraph 0010).
A glass sheet reads on the "glass plate for obtaining the glass piece" of the claims.
Since the cured coating prevents contaminants from adhering to the glass, curing is taken to reduce the adhesiveness of the protective coating.
Conclusion
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/RAMSEY ZACHARIA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1787