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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 .
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, 12, 13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Rusch et al (US 2018/0301782).
Re claim 1, Rusch et al disclose a shielding portion including a shielding (114) [0030] having a hollow tubular shape (hollow cylinder)[0031] (Fig 1); a core portion (110) including a dielectric core (106) [0034] that is located inside the shielding portion and extends in a longitudinal direction (Fig 1); and one rib (108) that is located between the shielding portion and the core portion and connects the shielding portion and the core portion (Fig 1).
Re claim 12, wherein the shielding portion [0036], the core portion, and the rib [0034] are made of a dielectric material, and formed integrally (Fig 1).
Re claim 13, wherein the dielectric core has a hollow (gases, air) [0027] tubular shape (112) [0033], and an electromagnetic wave signal received at one end (102) of the dielectric core is transmitted (propagating electromagnetic signals) [0023] to the other end (104) of the dielectric core in the longitudinal direction [0026].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-11 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