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 .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 03/09/2025 was considered by the examiner.
Specification
The title of the invention is too descriptive. A new title is suggested that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
The following title is suggested: “COMPOSITE PANEL FOR PREVENTING SPREAD OF FIRE”
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 2 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.
Claim 2 is recites the limitation "at an upper portion of the expansion joint, …at a lower portion of the expansion joint, lower expansion joint are fastened on both sides" in lines 3-. , however claim 1, which claim 2 depends from, only discloses “an expansion joint”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for the upper and lower expansion joint as claimed.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Jung Yong-Joo (WO0240801) in view of Baek Jong Gyoun (KR100900062).
Claim 1. Yong-Joo discloses a unit wall coupling structure of a composite panel (Fig. 2), the structure comprising: a wall structure part (10); a vertical-horizontal frame structure (100); an insulation panel unit member (20); a panel fixing angle member (310); and a wall vertical connection member (220 and 230), wherein the vertical-horizontal frame structure (100) includes a vertical bar (110) and a horizontal bar (120) formed as a quadrangular frame (Figs. 3-4 and 10), the vertical bar (110)) includes an upper vertical bar (110 above 260) and a lower vertical bar (below 260) but is silent on being are connected at a portion (260) at which an access floor is formed.
Gyoun before the filing date of the instant invention discloses vertical bar (Fig.14) including an upper vertical bar (50) and a lower vertical bar (50) that are connected at a portion (10, as shown in Fig.2). It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the filing date of the instant invention to form the vertical bar of Yong-Joo from two vertical bars with the motivation of having a versatile bar that could be used in different scenario absent any unexpected result.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 and 6 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claims 3-5 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the closest prior art of record fails to teach or adequately suggest the combination of characteristics specified in the independent claim, especially the requirement of a substance concerning L- shaped angle members fastened to an "L"-shaped connecting bracket, also fastened to the wall by a bolt and a nut of an anchor bolt through a gap adjusting groove formed in the other side of the L-shaped angle members, hence there is no cogent reasoning that is unequivocally independent of hindsight that would have led one of ordinary skill in the art at the time.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Refer to attached NOTICE OF REFERENCE CITED.
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BABAJIDE A. DEMUREN
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 3633
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