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 .
Status of the Claims
The preliminary amendment filed on 04/19/2024 has been entered. Claims 5-11, 14 and 18-19 have been amended. Thus claims 1-20 are currently pending and under examination.
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.
Claims 1-20 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.
Regarding claims 1, 5-6, 9-11, 15 and 17, the parenthetical limitations following "e.g." render the claims indefinite because it is unclear whether the limitations are part of the claimed invention. See MPEP § 2173.05(d).
Claims 2-16 and 19-20 are also rendered indefinite for their dependency on claim 1.
Claim 18 recites the limitation “Formula…II, III or IV” in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
The subject matter of claims 1-20 is free of prior art reference. The closest prior art reference is Patent application publication number US2020/0165383A1 (US’383; cited in IDS 04/19/2024). The reference teaches
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However, US’383 fails to teach the compound of formula I (claim 1) or formula II, III or IV (claim 17) as instantly claimed. Furthermore, there is no suggestion in US’383 to modify the compound of formula Y to reasonably arrive at the instantly claimed compound of formula I (claim 1) or formula II, III or IV (claim 17).
In view of the foregoing, the claimed invention is deemed novel and unobvious over the closest prior art reference.
Conclusion
Claims 1-20 are rejected and no claims are allowed.
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/MEDHANIT W BAHTA/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 1692
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