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 .
35 USC 102 Rejections
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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.
Claim(s) 12 and 13 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by CN 201829650.
Regarding claim 12, CN ‘650 (Figures 4 and 7) discloses an electrical connector, comprising: an insulating body 1, comprising a plurality of accommodating slots running through the insulating body along a vertical direction; and a plurality of signal terminals 2”, wherein each of the signal terminals comprises a body portion 21 accommodated in a corresponding one of the accommodating slots and an extending portion (unnumbered) formed by extending downward from the body portion, an abutting arm 22” bends and extends from only one side of the extending portion along a horizontal direction, the abutting arm embraces a solder 3, and a plate surface of the abutting arm is in contact with the solder.
Regarding claim 13, CN ‘650 discloses a projection of the solder 3 along the vertical direction has more than one-half of a region being enclosed by the abutting arm 22”.
Claims Defining Over Prior Art
Claims 1-11 are allowed.
Claims 14-16 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: none of the prior art discloses or teaches the abutting portions of the insulating body as recited; nor direction, a length of the long protruding portion protruding from the extending portion is greater than a length of the short protruding portion protruding from the extending portion, the long protruding portion and the abutting arm are located at a same side of the extending portion, and a groove exists between the long protruding portion and the abutting arm; nor a length of the long protruding portion protruding from the extending portion is greater than a length of the short protruding portion protruding from the extending portion, and short protruding portions of two signal terminals of the differential signal pair protrude toward each other; in combination with the rest of the subject matter of the respective independent claim.
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/GARY F PAUMEN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2834
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