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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 .
Drawings
The drawings were received on 2/26/2025. These drawings are acceptable.
Abstract
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The abstract should be in narrative form and generally limited to a single paragraph on a separate sheet within the range of 50 to 150 words in length. The abstract should describe the disclosure sufficiently to assist readers in deciding whether there is a need for consulting the full patent text for details.
The language should be clear and concise and should not repeat information given in the title. It should avoid using phrases which can be implied, such as, “The disclosure concerns,” “The disclosure defined by this invention,” “The disclosure describes,” etc. In addition, the form and legal phraseology often used in patent claims, such as “means” and “said,” should be avoided.
The abstract of the disclosure is objected to because legal phraseology “said one or more fasteners”. A corrected abstract of the disclosure is required and must be presented on a separate sheet, apart from any other text. See MPEP § 608.01(b).
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)(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(s) 1-4, 6, 13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wurms (US 2016/0352087).
Re claim 1, Wurms discloses an electrical component assembly, comprising:
a mounting unit (12),
a mounting device (14),
an electrical component (60),
one or more fasteners [0052], and
an outer element (56),
wherein said one or more fasteners are arranged in the outer element [0052], and wherein:
the mounting unit is configured for receiving the mounting device (Fig 1) and the mounting device is configured for receiving the electrical component (Fig 1);
the position of the mounting device relative to the mounting unit is adjustable [0046];
the mounting unit or the mounting device comprises one or more fastener devices (52) configured for releasable connection to said one or more fasteners [0052]; and
the fastener devices and the fasteners are operable to be forced towards each other, whereby the outer element and the mounting device are releasably fixated to the mounting unit [0052](Fig 1).
Re claim 2, wherein:- the mounting unit comprises a portion (22) which is shaped and configured for receiving the mounting device (Fig 5) and wherein the portion comprises a connection structure (72) arranged in the inside (Fig 5);- the electrical component comprises an outward profile (86) which corresponds to the mounting device outer shape (Fig 1); and- said one or more fasteners are configured for securing the outer element to the mounting device [0052].
Re claim 3, wherein the mounting device comprises a plurality of connection devices that comprise locking members (78) that are configured for releasable interlocking with corresponding portions of the connection structure in the portion (Fig 5).
Re claim 4, wherein the mounting device comprises recesses (82) and the connection devices are movably arranged in respective recesses (Fig 5).
Re claim 6, wherein the outward profile, the inner shape of the portion, and the outer shape of the mounting device have complementary shapes (Fig 1).
Re claim 13, Wurms discloses a method of installing the electrical component assembly, the method comprising:
a) arranging the electrical component in the mounting device and arranging the mounting device in the mounting unit (Fig 1);
b) engaging one or more fastener with a corresponding one or more fastener device [0052]; and
c) operating said one or more fastener to releasably fixate the outer element, the mounting device, and the electrical component to each other and to the mounting unit (Fig 1).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 5, 7-12, 14-15 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.
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/HUNG V NGO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2841
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