DETAILED ACTION
This is in response to the application filed on January 15, 2025 where Claims 1 – 20, of which Claims 1 and 16 are in independent form, are presented for examination.
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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Double Patenting
Claims 1 and 11 – 20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1 – 11 of U.S. Patent No. 12,299,171. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because Claims 1 and 7 of the patent anticipates the limitations of Claims 1 and 16 of the current invention. The dependent claims are 11 – 15 and 17 – 20 are also anticipated by Claims 2 – 6 and 8 – 11 of the patent.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. PGPub 2015/0149208; PGPub. 2017/0372096; PGPub. 2019/0198601.
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/TAE K KIM/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2496
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