DETAILED ACTION
The following Office action concerns Patent Application Number 19/001,222. Claims 1-19 and 21 are pending in the application.
The applicant’s amendment filed December 10, 2025 has been entered. Claim 21 is rejoined for examination.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 2, 4-19, 21 are allowable over the closest prior art of Zhao et al (included in the applicant’s IDS). The reference does not teach or suggest cross-linking with urethane acrylate.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. § 112 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
(b) CONCLUSION.-The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
Claim 3 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112(b) because the term “mercapropinoate” is indefinite. It is unclear what is required by the term “mercapropinoate.”
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