DETAILED ACTION
- Applicant's response filed 02/05/26 has been considered.
- Claims 1, 2, 11, 13, 15, 16, and 18 are amended, claims 12 and 17 are canceled, and claims 21 and 22 are added. Thus, claims 1-11, 13-16, and 18-22 are pending in the present application. The rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph and 102(a)(2) are withdrawn in view of applicant's amendments.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
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.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, 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 1 recites the limitation "the control terminal" in line 8. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claims 2-10 are also rejected based on virtue of their dependencies on the rejected base claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 11, 13-16, and 18-20 are allowed. The following is an Examiner's statement of reasons for allowance:
The Examiner in view of the Applicant Amendment filed on 02/05/26, where the applicant amended independent claims 11 and 16 to include all the pertinent limitations of claims 12 and 17 and cancelled claims 12 and 17, allows the independent claims 11 and 16.
Dependent depend from allowable independent claims and inherently include limitations therein and therefore are allowed as well.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/Esaw T Abraham/
Primary Examiner,
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