DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Status of Claims
Claim 1 is rejected
Claims 2-8 are objected to
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.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102 (a)(1) as being anticipated by Urbach et al (US PUB 20180217382, hereinafter Urbach).
Regarding Claim 1, Urbach discloses a headphone (e.g. headphone 100) with a touchscreen (e.g. a touchscreen 114), (see figure 1A) comprising a headband (e.g. headband 102), a first headphone body (e.g. a right earpiece 120), a second headphone body (e.g. a left earpiece 120), and a touch control apparatus (e.g. a touch control puck 104), wherein the first headphone body and the second headphone body are respectively arranged on two ends of the headband (see figure 1A), and the touch control apparatus is detachably arranged on the first headphone body (e.g. the puck 104 is removable), (see figure 2A); and a first wireless communication element is arranged in the first headphone body, a second wireless communication element is arranged in the touch control apparatus (e.g. the earpieces are equipped with wireless communication element, such a Bluetooth, while the puck 104 is equally equipped with wireless communication module, such as a second Bluetooth ), and the first wireless communication element is communicatively connected to the second wireless communication element (e.g. the puck 104 wirelessly communicate with the earpiece); (see Urbach, [0058]-[0059], [0062] and [0077]-[0078], also figures 1A, and 2A).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-8 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 is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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