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 .
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after allowance or after an Office action under Ex Parte Quayle, 25 USPQ 74, 453 O.G. 213 (Comm'r Pat. 1935). Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, prosecution in this application has been reopened pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 2/02/2026 has been entered.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
Claims 1-2, and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) & 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Iwasaki (US 2021/0080749), hereinafter Iwasaki.
Regarding claim 1 Iwasaki discloses a wearable device (e.g., title, abstract) comprising: a transparent member (Figs. 24-25, at the lens section), including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; a transparent substrate, in the transparent member, disposed between the first side and the second side (Figs. 24-25, at the lens section which includes a transparent member and transparent substrate); a first conductive pattern (Figs. 24-25, at 20 and 50) disposed on a side of the transparent substrate facing the first side of the transparent member; a second conductive pattern (Figs. 24-25, at 60; see also paragraph 0099) disposed on another side of the transparent substrate facing the second side of the transparent member and electrically disconnected from the first conductive pattern; and at least one processor (Fig. 24, at 40; paragraph 0060 “processor”) electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern (e.g., paragraph 0058).
Regarding claim 2 Iwasaki further discloses the wearable device of claim 1, wherein the second conductive pattern includes third wires, extending in the first direction, parallel to each other and fourth wires, extending in the second direction, parallel to each other (e.g., Fig. 2, at 60).
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Regarding claim 8 Iwasaki further discloses the wearable device of claim 1, wherein the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern have a continuous pattern, when the transparent substrate is viewed (e.g., Figs. 24, and 25 at 20, 50, and 60).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-7 and 9-14 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:
Regarding dependent claim 3, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of wherein a thickness of each of the third wires gradually decreases along the second direction.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 4, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of a ground pattern including: fifth wires, extending in the first direction, parallel to each other, and electrically disconnected from the second conductive pattern; and sixth wires extending in the second direction and parallel to each other.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 9, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of wherein the second conductive pattern includes third wires extending in the first direction and parallel to each other, and wherein the third wires filters a portion of light incident on the transparent member.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 10, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of a printed circuit board electrically connected to the at least one processor; and a feeding substrate connected to the printed circuit board and extending from the transparent substrate.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 11, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of touch circuitry configured to identify an input of a user based on based on capacitance data changed by an external object, the capacitance data obtained through the second conductive pattern.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 12, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of wherein the second conductive pattern includes a first touch pattern extending in the first direction and a second touch pattern extending in the second direction, and wherein the touch circuitry is configured to identity the input of the user, based on capacitance data changed in an area where the first touch pattern and the second touch pattern intersect.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 13, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of wherein the area where the first touch pattern and the second touch pattern intersect is spaced apart from an area where the first conductive pattern is disposed.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Regarding dependent claim 14, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of a heating member supplying heat to the first conductive pattern or the second conductive pattern.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device through the first conductive pattern,
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
Claims 15-18 and 21-22 allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Regarding independent claim 15, patentability exists, at least in part, with the claimed features of at least one transparent display including a first conductive pattern disposed on a third side of the transparent substrate in a portion of a first region of the transparent substrate; a second conductive pattern disposed on a fourth side opposite to the third side in a remaining portion of the first region and a second region of the transparent substrate; and at least one processor configured to be electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device, through the first conductive pattern.
Iwasaki, Jin and Kondo are both cited as teaching some elements of the claimed invention including a transparent substrate, a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and at least one processor configured to be electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and configured to communicate with an external electronic device, through the first conductive pattern.
However, the prior art, when taken alone, or, in combination, cannot be construed as reasonably teaching or suggesting all of the elements of the claimed invention as arranged, disposed, or provided in the manner as claimed by the Applicant.
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Conclusion
The Examiner has pointed out particular references contained in the prior art of record within the body of this action for the convenience of the Applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply.
Applicant, in preparing the response, should consider fully the entire reference aspotentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of thepassage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the Examiner.
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DAVID E. LOTTER
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2845
/DAVID E LOTTER/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845