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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 § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1-4 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kitagawa (JP-2017-163141) in view of Majima et al (US 2024/0150542).
Re claim 1, Kitagawa discloses an electromagnetic wave absorbing member comprising:
an electromagnetic wave absorbing layer (A);
a spacer layer (B) made of polyester [0038]; and
a reflective layer (C), wherein the electromagnetic wave absorbing layer, the spacer layer, and the reflective layer are laminated in this order [0022],
a relative permittivity of the spacer layer is 5 or greater (2-20) [0019], but does not disclose
a melting point of the spacer layer is 150 degree C or higher.
Re claim 2, wherein a thickness of the spacer layer is from 200 µm to 450 µm (50-2000µm) [0040].
Re claim 3, wherein a Young's modulus of the spacer layer is 50 MPa or greater (0.1 to 1000 MPa) [0039].
Re claim 4, wherein a flexural rigidity is 300 N-mm2 or less [0039].
Majima et al teach the use of polyester resin with a melting point of 224 degree C [0075] so that it can be molded [0026]. It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to use the polyester resin for the spacer layer of Kitagawa so that it can be easily molded.
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/HUNG V NGO/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2841
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