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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(a). The drawings must show every feature of
the invention specified in the claims. The invention is directed to a production method including adding an adhesive material to a surface of a first sealing material, irradiating the adhesive material with ultraviolet rays, peeling off the adhesive material, then providing the second member. It is unclear where the adhesive material is added on the first sealing material, and how the adhesive material is peeled off when being on three sides of more of the first sealing material. Therefore, the adhesive material and the intermediate step of peeling off the adhesive material of claims 1-4 must be shown or the feature(s) canceled from the claim(s). No new matter should be entered.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
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.
Claim 4 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Regarding claim 4, the limitation "an adhesive material" in Line L5, renders the claim indefinite because the antecedent basis is unclear as to whether “an adhesive material” (Line L5) refers to a new adhesive material or the “adhesive material” previously cited in Claim 1 Line L3. In the purpose of compact prosecution, “an adhesive material” has been interpretated as a second adhesive material.
Regarding claim 4, the limitation "the adhesive material" in Line L6, renders the claim indefinite because the antecedent basis is unclear as to whether “the adhesive material” (Line L6) refers to a new adhesive material or the “adhesive material” previously cited in Claim 1 Line L3. In the purpose of compact prosecution, “the adhesive material” has been interpretated as the second adhesive material.
Regarding claim 4, the limitation "the adhesive material" in Line L10, renders the claim indefinite because the antecedent basis is unclear as to whether “the adhesive material” (Line L10) refers to a new adhesive material or the “adhesive material” previously cited in Claim 1 Line L3. In the purpose of compact prosecution, “the adhesive material” has been interpretated as the second adhesive material.
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.
Claim(s) 1-3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Pei et al. (US20220122926A1-Pei26) EFD 2019.
Regarding claim 1, Pei26 discloses a production method for a semiconductor package, the method comprising:
adhering an adhesive material to a surface of a first sealing material (first sealing material 142 formed on adhesive material 104 so adhering adhesive material 104 to first sealing material 142-Fig 1C, [0033] L1-2);
peeling off the adhesive material from the surface of the first sealing material (peeling off adhesive material 104 from the surface of first sealing material 142-Fig 1D, [0044] L1-4); and
providing a second member to the surface of the first sealing material from which the adhesive material was peeled off (providing second member 174 to the surface of first sealing material 142 from which the adhesive material was peeled off-Fig 1H, [0072] L1-6).
Regarding claim 2, Pei26 discloses all the steps of claim 1, as noted above.
Pei26 further discloses a production method
wherein the second member is a second sealing material (second member 174 being a protection layer covering top surface of first sealing material 142-Fig 1H,[0072] L 1-6), and
the providing the second member to the surface of the first sealing material from which the adhesive material was peeled off is performed by molding a curable resin composition on the surface of the first sealing material (second member 174 being curable resin benzocyclobutene so molding a curable resin composition on the surface of first sealing material 142-[0065] L5-6, Fig 1H).
Regarding claim 3, Pei26 discloses all the steps of claim 1, as noted above.
Pei26 further discloses a production method
wherein the adhesive material is a UV peelable adhesive material (adhesive material 104 being an ultra-violet (UV) glue, which loses its adhesive property when exposed to UV lights so being a UV peelable adhesive material-[0023] L 14-16), and
the production method further comprising: irradiating the adhesive material with ultraviolet rays before the adhesive material is peeled off from the surface of the first sealing material (adhesive material 104 de-bonding of the substrate 102 from first sealing material 142 so peeled off from the surface of the first sealing material, adhesive material 104 being an ultra-violet (UV) glue, which loses its adhesive property when exposed to UV lights so requiring irradiating adhesive material 104 with ultraviolet rays before adhesive material 104 being peeled off from the surface of first sealing material 142-[0023] L 14-16, Fig 1D, [0044] L1-4).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Pei et al. (US20220122926A1-Pei26) EFD 2019 in view of Chang et al. (US 20220375826 A1-Chang26).
Regarding claim 4, Pei26 discloses all the steps of claim 1, as noted above.
Pei26 further discloses a production method
wherein the second member is a second sealing material ((second member 174 being a protection layer covering top surface of first sealing material 142-Fig 1H,[0072] L 1-6).
Pei26 does not disclose a production method further comprising:
adhering an adhesive material to a surface of the second sealing material;
peeling off the adhesive material from the surface of the second sealing material; and
providing a member that is different from the first sealing material and the second sealing material to the surface of the second sealing material from which the adhesive material was peeled off.
Chang26 teaches a production method further comprising:
adhering an adhesive material to a surface of the second sealing material (adhering adhesive material 182 to a surface of second sealing material 175-Fig 11, [0054] L1-6);
peeling off the adhesive material from the surface of the second sealing material (removing so peeling of adhesive material 182 from surface of second sealing material 175-Fig 11, [0054] L1-6, [0055] L11-13); and
providing a member that is different from the first sealing material and the second sealing material to the surface of the second sealing material from which the adhesive material was peeled off (providing member 212 different from first sealing material 136 and second sealing material 220/175-Fig 13A, Fig 15, [0065] L1-3).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the production method of Pei26 as taught by Chang26 for the purpose of providing a high level of integration and component density by stacking components (Chang26: [0002]).
Conclusion
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NATHALIE R. FAYETTE
Examiner
Art Unit 2812
/NATHALIE R FAYETTE/Examiner, Art Unit 2812 07/07/2026
/CHRISTINE S. KIM/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2812
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