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.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on January 15, 2025 and April 4, 2026 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
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 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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by ALRUTZ et al. (U.S. Publication No. 2020/0350661).
Claim 1: ALRUTZ, in figures 7A and 7B, for example, discloses a multi-functional link assembly (330) for a small base station antenna (320) apparatus, comprising:
a fixed housing (354) having an internal space open in one direction and the other direction; and
a directivity adjustment means (346) movably coupled to the internal space of the fixed housing or an external space corresponding to the outside thereof,
wherein the directivity adjustment means is coupled to the fixed housing such that the directivity adjustment means is caught when an antenna module provided at a front end portion is rotationally steered left or right or rotationally tilted up or down, and thus is prevented from being separated (¶[0065]).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-15 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.
Kasamatsu et al. (U.S. Patent No. 7,358,905), in figure 3, discloses a multi-functional link assembly, comprising: a fixed housing (4) having an internal space open in one direction and the other direction; and a directivity adjustment means (32) movably coupled to the internal space of the fixed housing or an external space corresponding to the outside thereof, wherein the directivity adjustment means is coupled to the fixed housing such that the directivity adjustment means is caught when an antenna module provided at a front end portion is rotationally steered left or right or rotationally tilted up or down, and thus is prevented from being separated (fig. 3).
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