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 .
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.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yu et al. (US2024/0072755 A1).
In regards to claim 1, Yu et al. teaches in annotated Fig. 1 below a wireless circuitry comprising: an antenna (1); and an impedance matching circuit coupled to the antenna, wherein the impedance matching circuit comprises: a primary coil (Annotated Coil A); a first secondary coil (Annotated Coil B) magnetically coupled to the primary coil by a first amount of coupling; and a second secondary coil (LG1) magnetically coupled to the primary coil by a second amount of coupling different than the first amount of coupling (based on related Fig. 3 and paragraph [0051], the primary coil and the first secondary coil directly overlap each other having a first amount of coupling, while the primary coil and the second secondary coil LG1 don’t overlap, resulting in a second amount of coupling which will necessarily be different than the first amount).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10 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.
Claims 11-20 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
The most relevant prior art reference is Yu et al. as disclosed above. However, Yu et al. does not teach: in regards to claim 2, a capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a node disposed between the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil and having a second terminal coupled to a ground power supply line; in regards to claim 11, a capacitor coupled to a node disposed between the first secondary coil and the second secondary coil; and in regards to claim 18, a harmonic rejection component coupled in parallel with the third coil. Therefore, the applicants’ claimed inventions have been determined to be novel and non-obvious. By virtue of dependency from either claims 2, 11 or 18, claims 3-10, 12-17 and 19-20 have also been determined to be novel and non-obvious.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
F. H. Gusdorf et al. (USPAT 2,522,035) teaches in Fig. 1 an impedance matching circuit comprising three coils (2, 5 and 7) that are magnetically coupled to each other.
Kuo et al. (USPAT 10,439,575 B1) teaches in Fig. 8D a transformer-based impedance matching circuit comprising of two coils (803) that are magnetically coupled to each other.
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