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 .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
Claims 1 and 2 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Tsironis (US 8410862 B1, hereinafter “Tsironis”).
Regarding claim 1, Tsironis discloses an alternating current apparatus, comprising:
a transmission line of an output impedance ZC with one end point connected to an alternating current power source (“the low frequency module is made using either variable phase shifter-capacitor or multi-capacitor-transmission line tuner structures”);
a plurality of phase shifters connected to the other end point of the transmission line (FIG. 22, depicts prior art, the structure of low frequency tuner using a variable capacitor (parallel-blade [7] or trimmer [3], depending on the frequency range) and a variable in-line phase shifter [8].); and
an alternating current circuit connected to each of the plurality of phase shifters, wherein each of the plurality of phase shifters has a phase shift angle and a characteristic impedance with which a real part of a composite admittance as viewed from the other end point is 1/ZC and an imaginary part is zero for a plurality of conditions of an input signal ((16) In terms of complex admittance Y, the above relation becomes: Y=1/Z=Yo*(1-.GAMMA.)/(1+.GAMMA.); with Yo=characteristic admittance (typically 1/50.OMEGA.=20 mS). {2}.
Regarding claim 2, Tsironis discloses the alternating current apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the alternating current circuit connected to each of the plurality of phase shifters is an antenna ((10) This invention relates to load pull testing of microwave power transistors using automatic microwave tuners in order to synthesize reflection factors (or impedances) at the input and output of said transistors. (11) A popular method for testing and characterizing microwave components (transistors) for high power operation is "load pull" and "source pull". Load pull or source pull are measurement techniques employing microwave tuners and other microwave test equipment, such as signal sources, power meters and directional couplers. The microwave tuners in particular are used in order to manipulate the microwave impedance conditions under which the Device under Test (DUT, or transistor) is tested (FIG. 1a)).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 3 is 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.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: the closest prior art does not provide “the alternating current circuit connected to each of the plurality of phase shifters is a rectifier circuit”.
Conclusion
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/MONICA C KING/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2844
11/23/2026