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 .
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of the invention corresponding to Species I in the reply filed on May 8, 2026 is acknowledged. Claims 8-9, 12-13, 15-16 and 19-20 are directed to non-elected Species II and are withdrawn from consideration.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority based on an application filed in KOREA, REPUBLIC OF on February 7, 2024. It is noted, however, that applicant has not filed a certified copy of the 10-2024-0019179 application as required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on November 27, 2024, November 6, 2025 and April 22, 2026 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
Specification
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
Claim Objections
Claim 4 is objected to because of the following informalities: the term “the second radiator should be changed to “a second radiator” to comply with antecedent basis rules and procedures for claim terms. Appropriate correction is required.
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.
(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.
Claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 14 and 18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lee et al. (U.S. Patent No. 11,852,736).
Lee, in figures 6A-6C, discloses:
Claim 1: An antenna (400) comprising: a first radiator (410) having a patch shape; a plurality of feed structures (411, 412) configured to feed the first radiator; and a plurality of ports (P1, P2) connected to the plurality of feed structures, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of feed structures comprises an L-shaped microstrip line (figs. 6A-6C).
Claim 2: The antenna of claim 1, further comprising a second radiator (420) spaced apart from the first radiator, wherein the second radiator has a patch shape and is different in size from the first radiator (fig. 6C).
Claim 6: The antenna of claim 1, wherein the first radiator is configured to output a sum pattern and a difference pattern through each of the plurality of ports, and the sum pattern and the difference pattern are used to detect a direction of a mono pulse (col. 1, lns. 34-40; col. 2, lns. 16-19).
Claim 7: An antenna (400) comprising: a first radiator (410) having a patch shape; a plurality of feed structures (411, 412) configured to feed the first radiator; and a plurality of ports (P1, P2) connected to the plurality of feed structures, respectively, wherein the first radiator is configured to output a sum pattern and a difference pattern through each of the plurality of ports, and the sum pattern and the difference pattern are used to detect a direction of a mono pulse (col. 1, lns. 34-40; col. 2, lns. 16-19).
Claim 11: The antenna of claim 7, further comprising a first dielectric layer (430) with the first radiator mounted on a surface thereof (figs. 6A-6C).
Claim 14: An electronic device (900, fig. 10) comprising: an antenna (400); and at least one processor, wherein the antenna comprises: a first radiator (410) having a patch shape; a plurality of feed structures (411, 412) configured to feed the first radiator; and a plurality of ports (P1, P2) connected to the plurality of feed structures, respectively, the first radiator is configured to transfer a sum pattern and a difference pattern to the at least one processor through each of the plurality of ports, and the at least one processor is configured to detect a direction of a mono pulse based on the sum pattern and the difference pattern (fig. 10).
Claim 18: The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the antenna further comprises a first dielectric (430) layer with the first radiator mounted on a surface thereof.
Claims 1 and 3-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wu et al. (U.S. Publication No. 2025/0087888).
Wu, in figures 1-5, discloses:
Claim 1: An antenna (100) comprising: a first radiator (120) having a patch shape; a plurality of feed structures (140) configured to feed the first radiator; and a plurality of ports (141, 142) connected to the plurality of feed structures, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of feed structures comprises an L-shaped microstrip line (144).
Claim 3: The antenna of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of feed structures is coupled to an H-shaped slot (131, 132, fig. 8) and indirectly feeds the first radiator.
Claim 4: The antenna of claim 1, further comprising: a first dielectric layer (L1, fig. 2) with the first radiator mounted on a surface thereof; and a second dielectric layer (112) with the second radiator (110) mounted on a surface thereof.
Claim 5: The antenna of claim 1, further comprising a cavity structure (148) spaced apart from the first radiator, wherein the cavity structure comprises a cavity wall arranged to surround at least one side surface of the first radiator (fig. 8).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 10 and 17 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
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/Robert Karacsony/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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