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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)(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.
Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Sagawa (JP 2022186-426).
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(Claim 1) Sagawa teaches a multilayered semiconductor device comprising:
a substrate (2, SiC) comprising silicon carbide (SiC) [Detailed Description of Embodiments of the Present Disclosure];
an epitaxial transition layer (3)) comprising a first epitaxial oxide material ((In .sub.0.1 Ga .sub.0.9 ) .sub.2 O .sub.3) or SiC, wherein the epitaxial transition layer is on the substrate;
one or more epitaxial active regions (4) comprising one or more second epitaxial oxide materials ((In .sub.0.1 Ga .sub.0.9 ) .sub.2 O .sub.3) formed on the epitaxial transition layer (3);
a metal layer (11) above the one or more epitaxial active regions,
wherein the metal layer comprises one or more electrical contacts; and
the multilayered semiconductor device comprises one of a metal-oxide field-effect transistor, a vertical conduction metal-oxide field-effect transistor, a lateral field-effect transistor, a metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor, a bipolar junction transistor, a junction field-effect transistor, a metal-insulator-semiconductor device, a PN device, a PNP device, an NPN device, or an insulated-gate bipolar transistor [Detailed Description of Embodiments of the Present Disclosure].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 – 35 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.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon, considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure are listed in PTO – 892 Form.
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/IGWE U ANYA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2891
September 9, 2026
