DETAILED ACTION
This is the second Office Action regarding application number 18/838,245, filed on 08/14/2024, which is a 371 of PCT/CN2023/101917, filed on 06/21/2023, and which claims foreign priority to CN 202211220767.6, filed on 10/08/2022.
This action is in response to the Applicant’s Response received 12/12/2025.
Status of Claims
Claims 1-6, 8-17, and 19 are currently pending.
Claims 7, 18, and 20-22 are canceled.
Claim 19 is amended.
Claims 1-6 and 8-17 are withdrawn.
Claim 19 is examined below.
The rejection of claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102 has been withdrawn in light of the Applicant’s amendments.
The rejection of claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 has been withdrawn in light of the Applicant’s amendments.
No claim is allowed.
Response to Arguments
The Applicant’s arguments received 12/17/2025 have been carefully considered but they are only partially compelling. Please see additional rejection issues of section 112 below.
The examiner generally finds the applicant’s remarks regarding XAVIER teaching only a back-contact solar cell with the adhesion promoter.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Indefiniteness
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.
Claim 19 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112 as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim 19 recites the limitation “the upper cover plate”. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim. Claim 19 is also generally unclear and indefinite because the newly added final limitation seems to suggest that other method steps are occurring that are also not previously recited, since there are multiple front/back surface wires/films/adhesives/cover plates, etc. The applicant is required to more clearly recite the method invention steps.
Claim 19 also recites “an interconnect wire” and “a laid interconnect wire”. The applicant is required to use clearer terms to connect together these two phrases.
Claim 19 continues to be indefinite and unclear although the applicant deleted the phrase “with relevant components” (previously rejected). The recitation “and assembling the laminate” is unclear because there is no context here that would be useful to skilled artisans attempting to understand what is included in the “assembling” step.
Conclusion
No claim is allowed.
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
Contact Information
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to ANGELO TRIVISONNO whose telephone number is (571) 272-5201 or by email at <angelo.trivisonno@uspto.gov>. The examiner can normally be reached on MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9:00a-5:00pm EST. The examiner's supervisor, NIKI BAKHTIARI, can be reached at (571) 272-3433.
/ANGELO TRIVISONNO/
Primary Examiner
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