DETAILED ACTION
Election/Restriction
Applicant’s arguments, filed 5/27/26, with respect to a restriction requirement of claims 1-20 have been fully considered and are persuasive. Therefore, claims 1-20 are now pending in the application.
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)(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.
Claims 1-3 and 7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by the publication of WO 2012/099976 A1 [cited by applicant].
The publication of WO 2012/099976 A1 discloses an antenna device, comprising: a loop antenna 402,408,410 comprising a first terminal of the loop antenna (at right side terminal of 412, fig4) and a second terminal of the loop antenna (at left side terminal of 412, fig4), wherein the first terminal of the loop antenna is coupled to a feed terminal (the right portion that the first terminal being connected), and the second terminal of the loop antenna is coupled to a ground terminal (para41); and a passive radiating element 404/414 comprising a first terminal 414 of the passive radiating element and a second terminal 404 of the passive radiating element, wherein the first terminal of the passive radiating element is coupled to the feed terminal (fig4), and the second terminal of the passive radiating element has a coupling section (fig4); wherein the coupling section and at least one portion of the loop antenna are substantially parallel to each other and have a first spacing to form a coupling capacitor (fig4, the closer the radiator 404 to the loop, the higher is the coupling), wherein the loop antenna further comprises a feed section and a radiating section 402, the feed section is coupled to the feed terminal, a first angle is between the feed section and the radiating section to form a configuration space, and the passive radiating element is arranged in the configuration space (fig4), wherein the first terminal of the passive radiating element has a connecting section (lower section of the first terminal), the connecting section is connected to the feed terminal, a second angle (fig4, angle of 180 degrees) is between the connecting section and the coupling section, and the coupling section and at least one portion of the radiating section are substantially parallel to each other (fig4), wherein the loop antenna and the passive radiating element are arranged on a first side of the substrate, and the loop antenna comprises a feed section, a radiating section and a ground section (fig4, para66) and wherein a first portion of the first patch antenna overlaps with the feed section, a second portion of the first patch antenna does not overlap with the feed section, and an area ratio between the first portion and the second portion is between 1.5 and 2.5 (fig4).
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.
Claims 4-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over the publication of WO 2012/099976 A1 [cited by applicant].
The publication of WO 2012/099976 A1 had been discussed but fails to teach the ranges of spacing or ratio or width between the coupling section and the feed section. It would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skilled in the art at the time the invention was made to have the spacing or ratio or width between the coupling section and the feed section has a ranging as claimed, since it has been held to be within the general skill of a worker in the art to select a known dimension of the elements be varied for the intended use as a matter of obvious design choice.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 12-20 are allowed.
Claims 8-11 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. The patents to Chang, Samardzija, Murayama, Kajino, Antonetti, Harper and Brown are cited as of interested and illustrated a similar structure to an antenna device.
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/THO G PHAN/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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