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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 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.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 6-13 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Regarding claims 6 and 20; the limitation, “a second cooling liquid circuit” appears to lack support in the application as originally filed. Claims 1 and 15, from which claims 6 and 20 depend from, respectively, lack disclosure for a first cooling liquid circuit. Secondly, the present application does not further disclose how “an external liquid cooler is configured to cool a second cooling liquid circulating through the second cooling liquid circuit; wherein the first cooling component is fluidly connected to the second cooling liquid circuit and configured to use the second cooling liquid in the second cooling liquid circuit to cool the first air stream”, as recited in claim 6. Thus, the present disclosure does not provide details on how one of ordinary skill in the art would ensure these limitations.
2. 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.
Claim 11 is 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
In claim 11, line 6, the phrase “a temperature of the outdoor air” is confusing as it is unclear how it relates to previously recited “a temperature of the outdoor air” in claim 10 line 10.
Allowable Subject Matter
3. Claims 1-5 and 14-19 are allowed.
Conclusion
4. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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/EMMANUEL E DUKE/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3763
01/29/2026.
/FRANTZ F JULES/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3763
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